By means of the H.E.S.S. gammy ray telescopes researchers have detected specifically energy-rich gamma ray sources in the Great Magellanic Cloud. A researcher team, among them the astro-particle physicist Olaf Reimer from Innsbruck University, reports in the special journal Science on the discovery of the first such object in a galaxy different from our own.
Photo: left: © H.E.S.S. Collaboration, optical: SkyView, A. Mellinger; right: © H.E.S.S. Collaboration, http://dirty.as.arizona.edu/~kgordon/research/mc/mc.html, Hα: R. Kennicutt, J.E. Gaustad et al. (2001), optical (B-band): G. Bothun
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