Tag: fermi space telescope
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Fermi Measures Cosmic ‘Fog’ Produced by Ancient Starlight
from spacedaily.com: Astronomers using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light from all of the stars that have ever shone, accomplishing a primary mission goal. “The optical and ultraviolet light from stars continues to…
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March 7 Solar Flare Emitted Highest Energy Light Ever Detected
The Sun is approaching Solar Maximum, expected to occur in 2013. Was March 7th X5.4 solar flare an indication of things to come?
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scud watching from geostationary earth orbit
Mad Scientists at DARPA are excited about prospects for Membrane Optic Imager Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) program. “MOIRE will park in space over the earth, and once there will unleash a “micron-thin diffractive-optics membrane” to form a 65-foot super-thin lens to watch a wider swath of ground more closely than anything else before,” according to Business…
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tgfs: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes
Images (pictured) of gamma rays flashes from thunderstorm, captured by Fermi space telescope. Scientists believe this may occur up to 500 times daily. The Daily Galaxy article explains, “a space telescope has accidentally spotted thunderstorms on Earth producing beams of antimatter. Such storms have long been known to give rise to fleeting sparks of light…