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Thinking that our atmosphere protects us from gamma rays prevents us from directly observing them from the ground |
Discovered by the Fermi GST, the object, a pulsar, is the first one known that only "blinks" in gamma rays! |
About 3 times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. |
Where can you read about it? Glad you asked!
http://tinyurl.com/56g6wc |
If you didn't hear back on October 16th -NASA'S Fermi Telescope Discovered First Gamma-Ray-Only Pulsar! |
See Where the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is orbiting right now! -
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=33053 |
See the ALL-SKY image from the Fermi GST at: http://tinyurl.com/6oytmf |
See the first light press release at www.nasa.gov/glast |
NASA announced a new name for the mission!
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope - named for Enrico Fermi |
Keep your eye on www.nasa.gov/glast for our first light information on Tuesday, August 26th! |
We're Going to have our First Light Sometime next week...stay tuned! |
Using information from radio telescopes, the LAT very quickly saw well-known gamma-ray pulsars. |
There have been routine detection of gamma-ray bursts by the GBM as instruments keep getting checked out. |
The GLAST Burst Monitor Team are Fine-Tuning Instrument and Operations!the story:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/glast_gbm.html |
The LAT updated onboard configurations that control how it operates. We now have a few days of planned pointed observations. |
The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM)started enabling gamma-ray burst (GRB) triggers! |
The 60-day checkout period is already entering the home stretch, and routine science operations will start soon. |
We recently completed our first month on orbit! |
The LAT team was very busy tuning up the instrument and doing detailed data checks. Data taking and processing are becoming routine. |
GBM means "GLAST Burst Monitor." |