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A Gamma-Ray Burst as Music

June 21, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter This is awesome. What would a gamma-ray burst sound like? No one really knows, but members of the team that work with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) have translated gamma-ray measurements into musical notes and have created a “song” from [...]

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Fermi Telescope Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space

January 10, 2011

From a NASA press release: Scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF), a brief burst produced inside thunderstorms and shown to be associated with lightning. It is [...]

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Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in the Milky Way

November 9, 2010

From a NASA press release: NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. “What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 [...]

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Even ‘Weakling’ Magnetars are Strong and Powerful

October 14, 2010

The name alone, “magnetar” elicits a magnificent, powerful and strong astronomical object, and most of these “magnetic stars” are whirling, X-ray blasting dynamos, shooting out strong bursts of energy. But there are some magnetars which seem to have a softer, quieter side, and are called soft gamma repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars. However, they might [...]

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Sources of Cosmic Rays Found? Fermi Telescope Closes In

February 15, 2010

The origin of cosmic rays has been a mystery since their discovery nearly a century ago. But new images from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may bring astronomers a step closer to understanding the source of the Universe’s most energetic particles. The images show where supernova remnants emit radiation a billion times more energetic than [...]

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