Comments on: GLAST is Now Fermi

By: LLDIAZ

LLDIAZ — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:39:54 +0000

I'm just glad you guys do what you do!
I love telling my kids what I've learned and seeing the expressions on there faces when I describe a nebula or a black hole.
So when you get crap like that over grammar just know that there's guys out here that appreciate what your doing…
Thanx

By: Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:21:50 +0000

btw:
That was a direct quote.
Nancy

By: btw

btw — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:19:04 +0000

"Turning on the telescope has gone extremely smooth."

I wish someone would proofread these articles. Universe Today isn't a website about rodeos or moonshine and confusing adjectives with adverbs only promotes the decline of the English language.

By: Jon Hanford

Jon Hanford — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:38:00 +0000

@ LLDIAZ Since these are gamma-ray images, pseudocolor images must supplant 'true color' images, since our eyes are insensitive to GRs.

By: LLDIAZ

LLDIAZ — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:20:52 +0000

These are the kinds of images I love to see you get more detail. The true color images look more like fireworks.

By: greg c

greg c — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:22:08 +0000

that logo is terrible. horrendous design.

By: Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:08:35 +0000

@Jon Hanford — thanks for the correction!

By: john

john — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:12:43 +0000

From what I remember of Enrico Fermi's biography he was worthy of having a satellite name for him. I believe he was not only a top scientist but also a gentleman deserving respect for him off duty behaviour.

By: Pauly

Pauly — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:18:39 +0000

Wow thats Original

By: RetardedFishFrog

RetardedFishFrog — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:33:45 +0000

I wouldn't want to be within a billion light years of that Blazar. That thing is probably sterilizing a huge swath of the Universe. On the other hand, at a certain distance, the mutagenic gamma rays may catalyze the evolution of life on some alien planet. It make more retarded… Give life good.

By: DrNecropolis

DrNecropolis — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:55:32 +0000

"Nobody expected such a smooth turn on"

Yep, that's sexy science at its best for you. And it's always better when its Fermi! Ha! I'm soooo not funny… Seriously though, I'm looking forward to more from GLAST.

By: Jon Hanford

Jon Hanford — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:35:51 +0000

Thanks, Nancy for the great article on the long-awaited first images from Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope. So nice to see those hi-energy photons in the all-sky images, especially considering the short exposure times. One minor point, however. The Vela Pulsar lies within our galaxy at an estimated distance of 1000 l.y. It's still amazing to see the truly extragalactic blazar 3C 454.3 in such a short exposure. The journey has just begun & who knows what might turn up in the coming years.

By: Don Alexander

Don Alexander — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:35:31 +0000

Well, I somehow liked GLAST better… The FGRST sounds like what some lovestruck person would say upon experiencing brainfreeze when seeing the target of affection…

By: Sili

Sili — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:24:00 +0000

Slightly off-topic, but these projections reminded me:

I'd really really love to get an interactive applet that'll allow to drag and rotate these full sky images!

The ellipsis-projection (I forget its name) is neat, but I'd still like to get a more 3D grasp of the CMB. The option of looking at it from both the inside and outside of the sphere would be neat, too, but I'll settle for just and interactive ball. I know there's an inflatable version of the microwave sky (without subtractions), I've seen Phil Plait with one, but I don't need something that concrete. Computer graphics would do nicely.