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Fermi Explores New Energy Extremes
01.10.12 - After three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is now extending its view of the high-energy sky into what to date has been largely unexplored territory.
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Tycho's Star Shines in Gamma-rays
12.13.11 - Fermi has revealed gamma-rays in the remains of a supernova first seen in 1572.
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In Cygnus, Fermi Reveals A Cosmic-ray Cocoon
11.28.11 - Fermi's Large Area Telescope penetrates the dust of the Milky Way's Great Rift to reveal one of our galaxy's richest-known stellar construction zones.
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Fermi Finds Youngest Millisecond Pulsar
11.03.11 - This surprisingly powerful pulsar challenges existing theories about how these objects form.
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Fermi Scientist Earns 2012 Panofsky Prize →
10.12.11 - Dr. Bill Atwood was awarded the prestigious prize for his work on the design, construction and use of Fermi's Large Area Telescope.
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Fermi Highlights Cosmic Mysteries
09.09.11 - If Fermi's catalog of the universe were a recipe, the two major ingredients would be active galaxies and pure mystery.
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Gamma-rays from Stellar 'Odd Couple'
06.29.11 - Every 3.4 years, a pair of mismatched stars in the southern constellation Crux whisk past each other, shooting out extreme forms of light each time.
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Radio Telescopes Catch Snapshot of Black Hole Jets
05.20.11 - Teams of researchers using radio telescopes have produced the most detailed image of particle jets erupting from a supermassive black hole.
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Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula
05.11.11 - The Crab Nebula supernova remnant erupted in an enormous flare, five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object on April 12.
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High-Energy Surprises in 'Constant' Crab Nebula
01.12.11 - The Crab Nebula was once thought to be the steadiest high-energy source in the sky. Not so, according to new data from NASA satellites.
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Fermi Catches Antimatter-Hurling Storms
01.10.11 - Scientists using NASA's Fermi Space Telescope have detected antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before.
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Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy
11.09.10 - NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope unveiled a previously unseen structure centered on the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years.
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Two Fermi Scientists Win Lindsay Award
10.14.10 - Julie McEnery and David Thompson of NASA's Fermi Space Telescope team have won the famous Lindsay award.
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Fermi Detects 'Shocking' Surprise from Supernova's Little Cousin
08.12.10 - Astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected gamma-rays from a nova for the first time, a finding that stunned observers and theorists alike because unlike supernovae, these explosions are typically too small to see.
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Fermi Maps an Active Galaxy's 'Smokestack Plumes'
04.01.10 - If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon.
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NASA's Fermi Probes "Dragons" of the Gamma-ray Sky
03.02.10 - Fermi reveals that most extragalactic gamma radiation comes from unknown sources rather than from black-hole-powered jets from active galaxies—what astronomers once considered the most likely suspects.
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NASA's Fermi Closes on Source of Cosmic Rays
02.16.10 - New images of supernova remnants from NASA's Fermi Telescope bring astronomers a step closer to understanding the source of some of the universe's most energetic particles -- cosmic rays.
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Newborn Black Holes Boost Power
01.27.10 - Astronomers have found evidence that two supernovae blasts received an extra boost from newborn black holes.
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Nature's Clocks May Make 'Galactic GPS' Possible
01.05.10 - Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy that could be used as a kind of "galactic GPS" to detect gravitational waves passing near Earth.
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Fermi Sees Brightest-Ever Blazar Flare
12.08.09 - Thanks to a series of flares that began September 15, a galaxy located billions of light-years away is now the brightest object in the gamma-ray sky.