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Fermi Caps First Year With Glimpse of Space-Time
In one year of operation, NASA's Fermi Telescope has seen more than 1,000 sources of gamma-rays, but it still can't unseat Einstein's theory of relativity.
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NASA'S Fermi Telescope Probes Dozens of Pulsars
With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars.
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NASA's Fermi Finds Gamma-ray Galaxy Surprises
Fermi, the successor to the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, is filling in the "gamma ray" picture with new finds of its own.
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NASA's Fermi Explores High-energy "Space Invaders"
Fermi scientists revealed new details about high-energy particles implicated in a nearby cosmic mystery.
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Radio Telescope Takes Close-ups of Fermi Galaxies
An international team of astronomers has used the world’s biggest radio telescope to look deep into the brightest galaxies that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can see.
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Active Galaxies Flare and Fade in Fermi All-Sky Movie
The gamma-ray sky comes alive in a movie made from Fermi Space Telescope data during its first three months of operations.
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International Team Explores a Blazar
An international team of astrophysicists using telescopes on the ground and in space have uncovered surprising changes in radiation emitted by an active galaxy.
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Fermi's Best-Ever Look at the Gamma-Ray Sky
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.
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Fermi Sees Most Extreme Gamma-ray Blast Yet
The first burst to be seen in high-res by the Fermi telescope had the greatest total energy, the fastest motions and the highest-energy initial emissions ever seen.
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Swift, Fermi Probe Gamma-Ray Fireworks
Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away.
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Fermi Unveils Dozen New Pulsars
The Fermi Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and detected pulses from 18 others.
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Fermi Telescope Discovers Gamma-Ray-Only Pulsar
A 10,000-year-old stellar corpse, called a pulsar, is the first one known that only "blinks" in gamma rays, as discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
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GLAST named after Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi
At a teleconference on Aug. 26, 2008, NASA announced it was giving a new name to the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, launched June 11, 2008.
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See Where GLAST is Flying in Orbit On-Line
Link provided for viewing GLAST's position in orbit in order to view it in the night sky.
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GLAST Team Fine-Tuning Instrument and Operations
One of the priorities of the GLAST Burst Monitor science team has been to validate burst location information provided by the telescope.
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GLAST Mission Operations at NASA Goddard Powered Up
Several bases of operations for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) are gearing up for data from the recently launched satellite.
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GLAST Safely in Orbit, Getting Check-ups
Less than a week after launch, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is safely up-and-running well in orbit approximately 350 miles (565 kilometers) above Earth's surface.
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GLAST is Ready to Go!
NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) received the final "Ready to Go!" from all teams.
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Excitement Builds as GLAST Readies Its Gamma-ray Vision!
Scientists around the world are excited about all the things that GLAST is going to uncover after it launches on June 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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NASA's GLAST Gets Shades, Blankets for the Beach
NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is receiving finishing touches at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, near the beaches of eastern central Florida for its launch.