A Star That Bursts, Blinks and Disappears
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 16:42
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Twinkle, twinkle little star" goes the nursery rhyme. Now, astronomers are reporting on a strange case where one of the littlest of stars "twinkled" with gamma rays, X-rays, and light -- and then vanished.