Intergalactic Race Ends in a Virtual Tie

Source: The New York Times

Waterloo : IA : USA | about 1 month ago

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The race was between gamma rays of differing energies and wavelengths spit in a burst from an exploding star when the universe was half its present age. Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, at 8:22 p.m., Eastern time, last May 9. Astronomers said the gamma-ray race was one of the most stringent tests yet...

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