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Astronomy => In the Media... => Topic started by: Rick on Aug 29, 2008, 11:30:02

Title: First light for space telescope
Post by: Rick on Aug 29, 2008, 11:30:02
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
Title: NASA spots 'gamma ray-only' pulsa
Post by: Rick on Oct 17, 2008, 17:41:56
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/