Gamma-Ray Binary Star System Found In Another Galaxy For First Time | Video
Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 15:31
in Astronomy & Space
Using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists have found a star 25-40 times the mass of the sun and a neutron star orbiting each other in the Large Magellanic Cloud. They are producing a "cyclic flood of gamma rays," according to NASA.