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GLAST Spacecraft

GLAST Observatory in Orbit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 6

At 12:05 p.m. EDT, the Delta II rocket easily lifted the GLAST spacecraft off the launch pad, out of smoke and clouds and into a beautiful Florida sky headed for space.


Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals pulsing gamma-ray sources

Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals pulsing gamma-ray sources

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created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery of 16 ...


Fermi Telescope reveals a population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars

Fermi Telescope reveals a population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars

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created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new class of pulsars detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is solving the mystery of previously unidentified gamma-ray sources and helping scientists understand the mechanisms ...


Fermi Large Area Telescope Reveals Pulsing Gamma-Ray Sources

Fermi Large Area Telescope Reveals Pulsing Gamma-Ray Sources

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created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery ...


Continent-sized radio telescope takes close-ups of Fermi active galaxies

Continent-sized radio telescope takes close-ups of Fermi active galaxies

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created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

An international team of astronomers has used the world's biggest radio telescope to look deep into the brightest galaxies that NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can see. The study solidifies the link ...


NASA targets GLAST launch for June 7

NASA targets GLAST launch for June 7

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created Jun 03, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA has set June 7 as the new target launch date for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch window extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 ...


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NASA targets GLAST launch for no earlier than June 11

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created Jun 06, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA has set June 11 as the new no-earlier-than target launch date for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch window extends from 11:45 ...


A Violent History of Time

A Violent History of Time

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 24, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 0

From mother Earth, the night sky can look peaceful and unchanging, but the universe as seen in gamma-rays is a place of sudden and chaotic violence. Using gamma-ray telescopes, astronomers witness short but ...


Searching the heavens -- GLAST

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created May 01, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A new space mission, due to launch this month, is going to shed light on some of the most extreme astrophysical processes in nature - including pulsars, remnants of supernovae, and supermassive black holes. It could even ...


VLBA locates superenergetic bursts near giant black hole

VLBA locates superenergetic bursts near giant black hole

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created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a worldwide combination of diverse telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a giant galaxy's bursts of very high energy gamma rays are coming from a region very close to the supermassive ...


The MAGIC-II Telescope is ready to team up

The MAGIC-II Telescope is ready to team up

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created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Together with the MAGIC-I telescope, MAGIC-2 allows stereoscopic observations using these two largest gamma-ray telescopes. Astronomers can explore sources of very-high energy gamma rays. ...


Integral expands our view of the gamma-ray sky

Integral expands our view of the gamma-ray sky

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created Feb 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 0

Integral's latest survey of the gamma-ray universe continues to change the way astronomers think of the high-energy cosmos. With over seventy percent of the sky now observed by Integral, astronomers have been ...


Blast from the Past Gives Clues About Early Universe

Blast from the Past Gives Clues About Early Universe

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained tantalizing insights into the nature of the most distant object ever observed in the ...


Very High Energy Gamma Rays

Very High Energy Gamma Rays

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created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gamma-rays are the most energetic known form of electromagnetic radiation, with each gamma ray being at least one hundred thousand times more energetic than an optical light photon. The most ...


GLAST Observatory reveals entire gamma-ray sky

GLAST Observatory reveals entire gamma-ray sky

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created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's newest space telescope is giving scientists their best look yet at the highest-energy gamma ray bursts generated by violent events in space. For Toby Burnett, a University of Washington ...