Thinking that our atmosphere protects us from gamma rays prevents us from directly observing them from the ground 12:20 PM Oct 27th from web |
Discovered by the Fermi GST, the object, a pulsar, is the first one known that only "blinks" in gamma rays! 12:19 PM Oct 27th from web |
About 3 times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. 12:18 PM Oct 27th from web |
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If you didn't hear back on October 16th -NASA'S Fermi Telescope Discovered First Gamma-Ray-Only Pulsar! 12:17 PM Oct 27th from web |
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NASA announced a new name for the mission!
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope - named for Enrico Fermi 6:20 AM Aug 27th from web |
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We're Going to have our First Light Sometime next week...stay tuned! 3:41 PM Aug 21st from web |
Using information from radio telescopes, the LAT very quickly saw well-known gamma-ray pulsars. 1:18 PM Aug 15th from web |
There have been routine detection of gamma-ray bursts by the GBM as instruments keep getting checked out. 1:18 PM Aug 15th from web |
The GLAST Burst Monitor Team are Fine-Tuning Instrument and Operations!the story:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/glast_gbm.html 1:17 PM Aug 15th from web |
The LAT updated onboard configurations that control how it operates. We now have a few days of planned pointed observations. 10:03 AM Jul 22nd from web |
The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM)started enabling gamma-ray burst (GRB) triggers! 10:02 AM Jul 22nd from web |
The 60-day checkout period is already entering the home stretch, and routine science operations will start soon. 10:00 AM Jul 22nd from web |
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The LAT team was very busy tuning up the instrument and doing detailed data checks. Data taking and processing are becoming routine. 6:27 AM Jul 9th from web |
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