Newswire: 22 January 2015 - H.E.S.S. - An exceptionally powerful trio in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Once again, the High Energy Stereoscopic System, H.E.S.S., has demonstrated its excellent capabilities. In the Large Magellanic Cloud, it discovered most luminous very high-energy gamma-ray sources: three objects of different type, namely the most powerful pulsar wind nebula, the most powerful supernova remnant, and a shell of 270 light years in diameter blown by multiple stars, and supernovae - a so-called superbubble. This is the first time that stellar-type gamma-ray sources are detected in a...