What Caused the Christmas 2010 Space Explosion? Dueling Theories Animated

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Channel: VideoFromSpace · 2011 · Science & Technology

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One thought is that a comet slammed into a neutron star and the second is a neutron star fell into its companion star causing the strange gamma ray burst detected in the Andromeda galaxy by NASA's Swift spacecraft on December 25, 2010.

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