Gamma-ray Flare Star
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 18:14
in Astronomy & Space
NASA spacecraft are monitoring blasts of gamma-ray energy from a star 30,000 light years away. Some of the flares have packed more total energy than the sun puts out in 20 years.
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