User blog comment:Glflegolas/Human Extinction -- are we approaching the Doomsday?/@comment-50.36.81.25-20150309211911/@comment-26116279-20150310212418

actually spartenz we are a medium sized galaxy with plenty of star forming material, there are many larger galaxies but the vast majority are the same size as our galaxy or smaller, in fact our galaxy is producing many stars the reason we are not likely to be hit by a gamma ray burst is because they would only pose a danger if one were pointed directly at us and occured less than 1 million light years away. gamma ray bursts are very rare and in fact we can actually only see those pointed at us the vast majority of which occur in other galaxies billions of light years away.