The Oddball Hosts of Gamma-ray Bursts
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 15:14
in Astronomy & Space
Cosmic explosions known as gamma-ray bursts are curiously picky about where they explode. Shunning spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, gamma-ray bursts prefer to 'go off' in oddball star systems that astronomers are just beginning to understand.