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Using 12 years of data, scientists produced this all-sky map to reveal the relatively steady gamma-ray sources Fermi sees. The bright band across the center is the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. The bright yellow and red spots scattered throughout are a mix of sources including nearby pulsars and distant black-hole-powered galaxies. Watch the video to meet a few of them.\r\n\r\nCredit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration\r\n\r\nMusic: “Gathering Courage,” Sam Connelly [PRS], Universal Production Music\r\n\r\nFind more information and content [here](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11342/){target=_blank}.\r\n\r\nComplete transcript available.", "items": [ { "id": 468748, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1153988, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014799/Fermi_AllSky_v2.mp4", "filename": "Fermi_AllSky_v2.mp4", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "00:00 A colorful oval-shaped map sits in the middle of a black background. The oval’s background is a mottled royal blue and striped with an irregular bright orange and yellow band horizontally across the center. Smaller dots and splotches in red, orange, and yellow are speckled across the blue areas.\r\n00:04 Text reads “This is an all-sky map. The sky is flattened out to see it all at once.”\r\n00:14 Text reads “This one shows how the sky looks to our Fermi telescope in gamma-ray light.”\r\n00:22 Text reads “Fermi sees … the plane of our Milky Way.” An arrow points to the bright orange and yellow band across the image.\r\n00:27 The scene zooms in on the left side of the map until about half of the map is visible.\r\n00:32 Text reads “black-hole-powered light from distant galaxies,” and an overlay appears with dozens of small circles around many of the brighter dots, with names like BL lacerate and 3C 454.3. The map begins to scroll to the left.\r\n00:37 Text reads “glowing remains of supernovae.” The overlay now has just a few circles, all within the Milky Way’s plane. Object names include Cygnus Loop and W51C, CTB 37A.\r\n00:43 Text reads “pulsars,” and there are dozens of sources with names like PSR J2017+0603.\r\n00:49 Text reads “normal galaxies,” and the overlay has just a few sources circled like the Large Magellanic Cloud and NGC 253.\r\n00:53 The map stops scrolling as the right edge is visible, and then zooms back out to show the entire sky. 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Each drop’s size and color represents the energy of one gamma-ray photon.\r\n\r\n3C 279 is a famous blazar, a galaxy whose high-energy activity is powered by a central supermassive black hole. As matter falls toward the black hole, some particles race away at nearly light-speed along a pair of jets pointed in opposite directions. A blazar is bright because one of these jets happens to be aimed almost straight at us.\r\n\r\nDuring this flare in 2015, 3C 279 became four times brighter than the Vela pulsar, which is typically the brightest gamma-ray object in the sky.\r\n\r\nVideo credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration\r\n\r\nMusic credit: \"She is a Sun Ray,\" Claude Pelouse [SACEM], Universal Production Music\r\n\r\nFind more information and content [here](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11947/){target=_blank}.\r\n\r\nComplete transcript available.", "items": [ { "id": 468750, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": "", "instance": { "id": 1153990, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014799/Fermi_Blazar_Raindrops_Square_FINAL.mp4", "filename": "Fermi_Blazar_Raindrops_Square_FINAL.mp4", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "00:00: The visualization plays once. White and magenta circles of varying sizes appear, expand, and fade out against a black background, in a manner reminiscent of raindrops on water. The maximum size of the circle and its color represent the energy of the gamma ray, with smaller white circles being the lowest and larger magenta ones being the highest energy. The circles are concentrated toward the center, and their cadence starts slow until there is an abrupt shower of hundreds that then trails off. \r\n00:20: Text reads, “Each circle represents one gamma ray detected by Fermi” \r\n00:26: Text reads, “Adding them up creates a picture of galaxy 3C279’s big flare”\r\n00:30: The visualization plays again with a clock in the upper right corner. At the start, the clock reads, “14 Jun 2015 04:55,” and ends with “17 Jun 2015 21:25.” Throughout, a gamma-ray image from Fermi builds up in the background. 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And now it could happen again, any day. If it behaves like it has in the past, it could erupt before September, but there’s no guarantee.\r\n\r\nNova explosions — not to be confused with supernovae — occur when a white dwarf in a binary star system collects material flowing out from a red giant companion. At some point, it collects enough material to cause an explosion, resulting in a brilliant outburst that blasts much of the collected gas into space. Unlike supernova explosions, the star isn’t destroyed in a nova. And in the case of T CrB, the explosion happens over and over, about every 80 years.\r\n\r\nEven though we know the general pattern, we can’t predict the exact timing of this eruption and will have to keep our eyes on the sky. 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The simulation shows the gravitational disturbance resulting from the distant flyby of a galaxy cluster about a tenth the mass of the Perseus cluster. The event causes cooler gas at the heart of the Perseus cluster to form a vast expanding spiral, which ultimately forms giant waves lasting hundreds of millions of years at its periphery. Merger events like this are thought to occur as often as every three to four billion years in clusters like Perseus.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"The Undiscovered\" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.", "width": 1024, "height": 575, "pixels": 588800 } }, { "id": 11947, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11947/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Fermi Spots a Record Flare from Blazar 3C 279", "description": "This visualization shows gamma rays detected during 3C 279's big flare by the LAT instrument on NASA's Fermi satellite. The flare is an abrupt shower of \"rain\" that trails off toward the end of the movie. Gamma rays are represented as expanding circles reminiscent of raindrops on water. Both the maximum size of the circle and its color represent the energy of the gamma ray, with white lowest and magenta highest. The highest-energy gamma ray the LAT detected during this flare, 52 billion electron volts, arrives near the end. In a second version of the visualization, a background map shows how the LAT detects 3C 279 and other sources by accumulating high-energy photons over time (brighter squares reflect higher numbers of gamma rays). The movie starts on June 14 and ends June 17. The area shown is a region of the sky five degrees on a side and centered on the position of 3C 279. 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The flare is an abrupt shower of \"rain\" that trails off toward the end of the movie. Gamma rays are represented as expanding circles reminiscent of raindrops on water. Both the maximum size of the circle and its color represent the energy of the gamma ray, with white lowest and magenta highest. The highest-energy gamma ray the LAT detected during this flare, 52 billion electron volts, arrives near the end. In a second version of the visualization, a background map shows how the LAT detects 3C 279 and other sources by accumulating high-energy photons over time (brighter squares reflect higher numbers of gamma rays). The movie starts on June 14 and ends June 17. The area shown is a region of the sky five degrees on a side and centered on the position of 3C 279. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT CollaborationWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 11342, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11342/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Fermi's Five-year View of the Gamma-ray Sky", "description": "This all-sky view shows how the sky appears at energies greater than 1 billion electron volts (GeV) according to five years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. (For comparison, the energy of visible light is between 2 and 3 electron volts.) The image contains 60 months of data from Fermi's Large Area Telescope; for better angular resolution, the map shows only gamma rays converted at the front of the instrument's tracker. Brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. The map is shown in galactic coordinates, which places the midplane of our galaxy along the center. The five-year Fermi map is available in multiple resolutions below, along with additional plots containing reference information and identifying some of the brightest sources. || ", "release_date": "2013-08-21T13:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2021-09-10T15:10:50-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 462843, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011300/a011342/Femri_5_year_11000x6189_web.jpg", "filename": "Femri_5_year_11000x6189_web.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The Fermi LAT 60-month image, constructed from front-converting gamma rays with energies greater than 1 GeV. The most prominent feature is the bright band of diffuse glow along the map's center, which marks the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. The gamma rays are mostly produced when energetic particles accelerated in the shock waves of supernova remnants collide with gas atoms and even light between the stars. Hammer projection. Image credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } }, { "id": 20184, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20184/", "page_type": "Animation", "title": "Fermi Sees a Nova", "description": "NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected gamma-rays from a nova for the first time. The finding stunned observers and theorists alike because it overturns a long-standing notion that novae explosions lack the power for such high-energy emissions. In March, Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected gamma rays — the most energetic form of light - from the nova for 15 days. Scientists believe that the emission arose as a million-mile-per-hour shock wave raced from the site of the explosion. A nova is a sudden, short-lived brightening of an otherwise inconspicuous star. The outburst occurs when a white dwarf in a binary system erupts in an enormous thermonuclear explosion. \"In human terms, this was an immensely powerful eruption, equivalent to about 1,000 times the energy emitted by the sun every year,\" said Elizabeth Hays, a Fermi deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. \"But compared to other cosmic events Fermi sees, it was quite modest. We're amazed that Fermi detected it so strongly.\" More information here. || ", "release_date": "2010-08-12T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:07.288606-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 490806, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020100/a020184/NovaCyg093500952_print.jpg", "filename": "NovaCyg093500952_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Watch V407 Cyg go nova! In this animation, gamma rays (magenta) arise when accelerated particles in the explosion's shock wave crash into the red giant's stellar wind.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 10123, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10123/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "WMAP's Portrait of the Early Universe", "description": "Scientists using NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe (WMAP) have created the most detailed portrait of the infant Universe. By capturing the afterglow of the Big Bang, called the cosmic microwave background (CMB), we now believe the Universe to be 13.7 billion years old. Encoded in these patterns is much—anticipated information about the fundamental properties of the early Universe. WMAP launched on June 30, 2001. || ", "release_date": "2007-07-03T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-03-16T23:13:13.186156-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 508099, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010100/a010123/WMAPportrait1333.jpg", "filename": "WMAPportrait1333.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This animation begins with a zoom into the WMAP data. We then see the formation of the first stars and galaxies. The images zooms out to reveal the relative locations of the WMAP data and from where the satellite is observing.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } ], "products": [], "newer_versions": [], "older_versions": [], "alternate_versions": [] }