Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
Alt text: Fermi 15-year all-sky gamma-ray map
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Many of the star-like features above and below the Milky Way plane are distant galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. Many of the bright sources along the plane are pulsars. The image was constructed from 15 years of observations using front-converting gamma rays with energies greater than 1 GeV. Hammer projection with black background.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT CollaborationAlt text: Fermi 15-year all-sky gamma-ray mapImage description: A colorful oval map sits in the middle of a black background. The oval is predominantly royal blue, striped with an irregular bright red, orange, and yellow band horizontally across the center, which shows the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Smaller dots and splotches in red, orange, yellow, and white appear throughout the oval. 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Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
Alt text: Fermi 15-year all-sky gamma-ray map, cylindrical projection
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Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
Alt text: Fermi 15-year all-sky gamma-ray map, galactic anticenter
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