This:
Not impressed? Well, you should be. What you see in this image is WR-104, a Wolf-Rayet star located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. Wolf-Rayet stars are massive stars in the pre-supernova phase and when they explode, they produce an intense burst of gamma rays. In the direction of the star's rotation axis, something similar to what you see in this illustration:
And here comes the terrifying part: have you noticed how the star rotates? Its rotation axis is pointing towards us, which means that when it explodes, its gamma-ray burst will hit us squarely.