Poster: Fermi's Gamma-ray Cosmos
This poster summarizes the career to date of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The central image is a map of the whole sky at gamma-ray wavelengths accumulated over six years of operations. The poster also discusses other Fermi findings, including a black widow pulsar, the Fermi Bubbles rising thousands of light-years out of our galaxy's center, a giant gamma-ray flare from the Crab Nebula, and many more.
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Credit: NASA/Fermi/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
Credits
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NASA/Fermi/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
Designer
- Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State University)
Writer
- Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park)
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