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.

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