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The Oddball Hosts of Gamma-ray Bursts

Subject: The Oddball Hosts of Gamma-ray Bursts
From: NASA Science News <snglist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:22:51 -0500

NASA Science News for October 21, 2008

Cosmic explosions known as gamma-ray bursts are curiously picky about where they explode. Shunning spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, gamma-ray bursts prefer to 'go off' in oddball star systems that astronomers are just beginning to understand.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/21oct_oddballs.htm?list1052465

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