HESS Collaboration Finds Three Extremely Luminous Gamma-ray Sources In The Large Magellanic Cloud
Monday, January 26, 2015 - 18:30
in Astronomy & Space
A multinational team of astronomers working on the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescopes found three extremely luminous gamma-ray sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way. These are objects of different types, namely the most powerful pulsar wind nebula; the most powerful supernova remnant; and a shell of 270 light years in diameter blown by multiple stars, and supernovae - a so-called superbubble. read more