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Article: Iowa State researchers contribute to discovery of gamma rays from starburst galaxy.
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- November 22, 2009
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Iowa State University astrophysicists contributed to the recent discovery that a galaxy quickly creating new stars is also a source of high energy gamma rays.
The discovery has just been published by the journal Nature. The study reports that researchers using the VERITAS array of four telescopes at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona have detected gamma rays of a trillion electron volts coming from the M 82 galaxy. The corresponding author of the article is Wystan Benbow of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Whipple Observatory.
Researchers discovered cosmic rays (mostly hydrogen nuclei) from space nearly a century ago ...