Highlights of Fermi's First Five Years

  • Released Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:51PM
  • ID: 11311

This compilation summarizes the wide range of science from the first five years of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi is a NASA observatory designed to reveal the high-energy universe in never-before-seen detail. Launched in 2008, Fermi continues to give astronomers a unique tool for exploring high-energy processes associated with solar flares, spinning neutron stars, outbursts from black holes, exploding stars, supernova remnants and energetic particles to gain insight into how the universe works.

Fermi detects gamma rays, the most powerful form of light, with energies thousands to billions of times greater than the visible spectrum.

The mission has discovered pulsars, proved that supernova remnants can accelerate particles to near the speed of light, monitored eruptions of black holes in distant galaxies, and found giant bubbles linked to the central black hole in our own galaxy.

From blazars to thunderstorms, from dark matter to supernova remnants, catch the highlights of NASA Fermi’s first five years in space.

View all the Fermi-related media from the last 5 years in the Fermi Gallery.

For more information about Fermi, visit NASA's Fermi webpage.

Short video containing highlights from Fermi's first 5 years of operation.

Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.

For complete transcript, click here.

For More Information

See http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-fermi-celebrates-five-years-in-space-enters-extended-mission/

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  • Fermi Five Year Anniversary (ID: 2013066)
    Monday, August 12, 2013 at 4:00AM
    Produced by - Robert Crippen

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