Starburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery

Monday, November 2, 2009 - 14:14 in Astronomy & Space

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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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