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Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar

Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive ...


Fermi telescope caps its first year with a glimpse of space-time

Fermi Telescope Caps First Year With Glimpse of Space-Time (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 5

During its first year of operations, NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope mapped the extreme sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. It captured more than one thousand discrete sources of gamma ...


Fermi Large Area Telescope Reveals Pulsing Gamma-Ray Sources

Fermi Large Area Telescope Reveals Pulsing Gamma-Ray Sources

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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 ...


Large Area Telescope First Year Data Released

Large Area Telescope First Year Data Released

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since the Large Area Telescope launched aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in June 2008, the LAT team has been analyzing data, searching for answers to some of the most pressing ...


Large Area Telescope explores high-energy particles

Large Area Telescope explores high-energy particles

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is making some exciting discoveries about cosmic rays and the Large Area Telescope aboard Fermi is the tool in this investigation. Scientists in the ...


Fermi finds gamma-ray galaxy surprises

Fermi telescope finds gamma-ray galaxy surprises

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 6

Back in June 1991, just before the launch of NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, astronomers knew of gamma rays from exactly one galaxy beyond our own. To their surprise and delight, the satellite captured ...


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

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

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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 ...


Fermilab's CDF observes Omega-sub-b baryon

Fermilab's CDF observes Omega-sub-b baryon

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- At a recent physics seminar at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab physicist Pat Lukens of the CDF experiment announced the observation of a new particle, ...


Space Colony

Galactic Colonization Limited By The Inability To Expand Exponentially

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (50) | comments 92

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 50 years, many have taken the so-called Fermi Paradox to indicate that the existence of intelligent alien civilizations is an impossibility. However, a recent re-examination ...


NASA's Fermi explores high-energy 'space invaders'

Fermi telescope explores high-energy 'space invaders'

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 6

(Physorg.com) -- Since its launch last June, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years ...


Johannes Rydberg

Scientists Make First Observation of Unique Rydberg Molecule

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Enrico Fermi investigated the Rydberg atom in the '30s, he never imagined that the giant atoms could form molecules. Later, in the '70s and '80s, theoretical physicist Chris Greene predicted ...


Particle oddball surprises physicists

Particle oddball surprises physicists

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced yesterday that they have found evidence of an unexpected particle whose curious ...


Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle

Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved the world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson by a ...


Fermi telescope reveals best-ever view of the gamma-ray sky

Fermi telescope reveals best-ever view of the gamma-ray sky

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new map combining nearly three months of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is giving astronomers an unprecedented look at the high-energy cosmos. To Fermi's eyes, the universe ...


Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark

Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks. The discovery ...