What Caused the Christmas 2010 Space Explosion? Dueling Theories Animated

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 14:00 in Astronomy & Space

One thought is that a comet slammed into a neutron star and the second is a neutron star fell into its companion star causing the strange gamma ray burst detected in the Andromeda galaxy by NASA's Swift spacecraft on December 25, 2010.

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