Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Spacecraft Animation

  • Released Friday, February 19th, 2021
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:44PM
  • ID: 13816

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, illustrated here, scans the entire sky every three hours as it orbits Earth.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR)

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a powerful space observatory that opens a wide window on the universe. Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of light, and the gamma-ray sky is spectacularly different from the one we perceive with our own eyes. Fermi enables scientists to answer persistent questions across a broad range of topics, including supermassive black-hole systems, pulsars, the origin of cosmic rays, and searches for signals of new physics.

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