Starburst Galaxy Sheds Light on Longstanding Cosmic Mystery
Monday, November 2, 2009 - 14:35
in Astronomy & Space
An international collaboration that includes scientists from the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has discovered very-high-energy gamma rays in the Cigar Galaxy (M82), a bright galaxy filled with exploding stars 12 million light years from Earth.
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