How NASA's Fermi telescope reveals the universe's most violent high-energy processes
In short: This video reviews the first five years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Discover how this observatory captures the most powerful light in existence to study everything from black hole eruptions to exploding stars.
Launched in 2008, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observes the high-energy universe by detecting gamma rays. These rays possess energies thousands to billions of times greater than visible light.
The mission has provided unprecedented detail on phenomena such as solar flares, spinning neutron stars, and supernova remnants. Notably, Fermi proved that supernova remnants can accelerate particles to speeds approaching the speed of light. It has also monitored black hole eruptions in distant galaxies and identified giant bubbles connected to the central black hole in our own galaxy.
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- Summary by Intellect · source: NASA | Fermi at Five Years
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