The Brightest Light Ever Made By Humans

Watch Becky Stern’s Shenzen series on Nebula! For most of human history, the brightest man-made light was just firelight. But around the turn of the century, artificial light came on the scene and the race to create the brightest light ever was on, and it continues to this day. In fact we have created light that is brighter than the sun. Brighter than a nuclear weapon. By tens of millions of times. Source: