First light for space telescope

[Rick]

A powerful Nasa space telescope launched in June has unveiled its first results - including an image of the sky viewed through "gamma-ray glasses".

Nasa also revealed a new name; the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope has become the Fermi telescope.

The name honours Enrico Fermi - one of the pioneers of high energy physics.

More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7584915.stm

APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080828.html

[Rick]

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly known as GLAST) has spied the first "gamma ray-only" pulsar - a 10,000 year-old stellar remnant which uniquely doesn't appear to emit pulses at either radio, visible light or X-ray wavelengths in common with the 1,800 or so similar objects catalogued to date.

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/17/gamma_ray_pulsar/