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Watch to see how this unique event helps solve the longstanding puzzle of fast radio bursts observed in other galaxies.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Jupiter's Eye\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 405953, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 13590, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13590/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Build Your Own Fermi Satellite", "description": "With a printer, scissors, glue and wooden skewers, you can make your own replica of the Fermi spacecraft. 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Grab the files to make your own here: https://go.nasa/papermodels Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic Credit: \"Bahama Beats\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 405954, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 13578, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13578/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "NASA Missions Study a Nova's Shock Waves", "description": "NASA’s Fermi and NuSTAR space telescopes, together with another satellite named BRITE-Toronto, are providing new insights into a nova explosion that erupted in 2018. Detailed measurements of bright flares in the explosion clearly show that shock waves power most of the nova's visible light. 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Detailed measurements of bright flares in the explosion clearly show that shock waves power most of the nova's visible light. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Scientist\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 405955, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 13209, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13209/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "NASA’s Fermi Finds Vast ‘Halo’ Around Nearby Pulsar", "description": "Astronomers using data from NASA’s Fermi mission have discovered a pulsar with a faint gamma-ray glow that spans a huge part of the sky. 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Watch to learn more.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Insight\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 405959, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40405, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/fermi-videos/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Fermi-Videos", "description": "Produced videos about Fermi and Fermi science results!", "release_date": "2020-01-22T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2024-04-22T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 857386, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/More_Info.jpg", "filename": "More_Info.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "All of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's news releases in chronological order", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 370725, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/fermi5/#media_group_370725", "widget": "Tile gallery", "title": "Stills/Graphics", "caption": "", "description": "These pages contain still images, illustrations and graphics.", "items": [ { "id": 425223, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14476, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14476/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Fermi Mission Detects Surprising Gamma-Ray Feature Beyond Our Galaxy", "description": "This artist’s concept shows the entire sky in gamma rays with magenta circles illustrating the uncertainty in the direction from which more high-energy gamma rays than average seem to be arriving. 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The circles enclose regions with a 68% (inner) and a 95% chance of containing the origin of these gamma rays. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center", "width": 3840, "height": 2160, "pixels": 8294400 } } }, { "id": 425224, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14317, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14317/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "NASA Missions Probe What May Be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst", "description": "The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 revealed the infrared afterglow (circled) of the BOAT GRB and its host galaxy, seen nearly edge-on as a sliver of light extending to the burst's upper left. This animation flips between images taken on Nov. 8 and Dec. 4, 2022, one and two months after the eruption. Given its brightness, the burst’s afterglow may remain detectable by telescopes for several years. Each picture combines three near-infrared images taken at wavelengths from 1 to 1.5 microns and is 34 arcseconds across. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Levan (Radboud University); Image Processing: Gladys Kober || GRB_WFC3IR1108+1204_circled.gif (512x512) [3.5 MB] || ", "release_date": "2023-03-28T13:50:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T11:43:38.257753-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 842157, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014300/a014317/GRB_all_rings_XMM_2160_searchweb.png", "filename": "GRB_all_rings_XMM_2160_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "XMM-Newton images recorded 20 dust rings, 19 of which are shown here in arbitrary colors. This composite merges observations made two and five days after GRB 221009A erupted. Dark stripes indicate gaps between the detectors. A detailed analysis shows that the widest ring visible here, comparable to the apparent size of a full moon, came from dust clouds located about 1,300 light-years away. The innermost ring arose from dust at a distance of 61,000 light-years on the other side of our galaxy. GRB221009A is only the seventh gamma-ray burst to display X-ray rings, and it triples the number previously seen around one.Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/M. Rigoselli (INAF)", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 405960, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14309, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14309/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Fermi Captures Dynamic Gamma-ray Sky", "description": "Watch a cosmic gamma-ray fireworks show in this animation using just a year of data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Each object’s magenta circle grows as it brightens and shrinks as it dims. The yellow circle represents the Sun following its apparent annual path across the sky. The animation shows a subset of the LAT gamma-ray records now available for more than 1,500 objects in a new, continually updated repository. Over 90% of these sources are a type of galaxy called a blazar, powered by the activity of a supermassive black hole.Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center/Daniel Kocevski || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_ProRes_3840x2160.mov (3840x2160) [170.3 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_1600.gif (1600x900) [6.5 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_1050.gif (1050x590) [3.2 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark.gif (800x450) [2.1 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [12.1 MB] || Fermi_LAT_LCR_Feb2022-Feb2023_Dark_4k.webm (3840x2160) [1.9 MB] || ", "release_date": "2023-03-15T11:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T11:43:40.048008-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 789250, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014300/a014309/Fermi_LAT_LCR_Still_print.jpg", "filename": "Fermi_LAT_LCR_Still_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Still image of the above.Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center/Daniel Kocevski", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 405961, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 12022, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12022/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Poster: Fermi's Gamma-ray Cosmos", "description": "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.The poster is available in a variety of resolutions.Credit: NASA/Fermi/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet || FskymaPoster15-2400_print.jpg (1024x658) [1.4 MB] || FskymaPoster15.jpg (11775x7575) [24.4 MB] || FskymaPoster15-half.jpg (5888x3788) [11.0 MB] || FskymaPoster15-3840.jpg (3840x2470) [6.3 MB] || FskymaPoster15-2400.jpg (2400x1544) [3.2 MB] || FskymaPoster15-2400_searchweb.png (320x180) [490.4 KB] || FskymaPoster15-2400_thm.png (80x40) [401.9 KB] || FskymaPoster15.tif (11775x7575) [340.8 MB] || ", "release_date": "2015-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:49:15.086086-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 438795, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012000/a012022/FskymaPoster15-2400_print.jpg", "filename": "FskymaPoster15-2400_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "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.The poster is available in a variety of resolutions.Credit: NASA/Fermi/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet", "width": 1024, "height": 658, "pixels": 673792 } } }, { "id": 405962, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 12969, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12969/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Fermi Satellite Celebrates 10 Years of Discoveries", "description": "Watch a two-minute video on how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the high-energy sky over its first 10 years in space. 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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Unseen Husband\" from Killer TracksComplete transcript available.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 405963, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14090, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14090/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Fermi's 12-year View of the Gamma-ray Sky", "description": "This image shows the entire sky as seen by Fermi's Large Area Telescope. The most prominent feature is the bright, diffuse glow running along the middle of the map, which marks the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. The gamma rays there are mostly produced when energetic particles accelerated in the shock waves of supernova remnants collide with gas atoms and even light between the stars. 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 12 years of observations using front-converting gamma rays with energies greater than 1 GeV. Hammer projection.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration || Fermi_144-month_Fermi_all-sky_hammer_2160x1080.png (2160x1080) [2.4 MB] || Fermi_144-month_Fermi_all-sky_hammer_2160x1080_print.jpg (1024x512) [306.6 KB] || Fermi_144-month_Fermi_all-sky_hammer_4000x2000.png (4000x2000) [7.0 MB] || Fermi_144-month_Fermi_all-sky_hammer_3600x1800.png (3600x1800) [4.9 MB] || ", "release_date": "2022-02-12T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2022-02-07T14:45:20-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 373454, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014000/a014090/Fermi_144_month_all-sky-cyl_3600x1800_print.jpg", "filename": "Fermi_144_month_all-sky-cyl_3600x1800_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Same as above but in the equidistant cylindrical projection.Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration", "width": 1024, "height": 512, "pixels": 524288 } } }, { "id": 405964, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 13236, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13236/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Fermi Sees the Moon in Gamma Rays", "description": "These images show the steadily improving view of the Moon’s gamma-ray glow from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Each 5-by-5-degree image is centered on the Moon and shows gamma rays with energies above 31 million electron volts, or tens of millions of times that of visible light. At these energies, the Moon is actually brighter than the Sun. Brighter colors indicate greater numbers of gamma rays. 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Others include scientific concepts and tools, like the Fermi Satellite, and famous landmarks in countries contributing to the development and operation of Fermi. The mission has mapped about 3,000 gamma-ray sources -- 10 times the number known before its launch and comparable to the number of bright stars in the traditional constellations. The background shows the gamma-ray sky as mapped by Fermi. The prominent reddish band is the plane of our own galaxy, the Milky Way; brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. 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This never-before-seen feature looks like a pair of bubbles extending above and below our galaxy's center. But these enormous gamma-ray emitting lobes aren't immediately visible in the Fermi all-sky map. However, by processing the data, a group of scientists was able to bring these unexpected structures into sharp relief. Each lobe is 25,000 light-years tall and the whole structure may be only a few million years old. Within the bubbles, extremely energetic electrons are interacting with lower-energy light to create gamma rays, but right now, no one knows the source of these electrons.Are the bubbles remnants of a massive burst of star formation? Leftovers from an eruption by the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's center? Or or did these forces work in tandem to produce them? 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At that altitude, the observatory will circle Earth every 90 minutes. In sky-survey mode, GLAST will be able to view the entire sky in just two orbits, or about 3 hours. Because gamma rays in the GLAST's energy band are unable to penetrate the Earth's atmostphere, it is essential that GLAST perform its observations from space. || ", "release_date": "2007-09-14T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-06-23T00:18:18.925958-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 507471, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020100/a020119/glaP046400227_print.jpg", "filename": "glaP046400227_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This beauty shot begins with the earth in full view and pans to reveal the spacecraft in orbit. 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When a gamma ray, which is pure energy (E), slams into a layer of tungsten in one of the tracking towers that compose the LAT, it creates mass (m) in the form of a pair of subatomic particles, an electron and its antimatter counterpart, a positron. Several layers of high-precision silicon detectors track the particles as they move through the instrument. The direction of the incoming gamma ray is determined by projecting the particle paths backward. The particles travel through the trackers until they reach a separate detector called a calorimeter, which absorbs and measures their energies. 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", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 405981, "type": "media_group", "extra_data": null, "title": "Fermi Improves Its Vision For Thunderstorm Gamma-ray Flashes", "caption": "Thanks to improved data analysis techniques and a new operating mode, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is now 10 times better at catching the brief outbursts of high-energy light mysteriously produced above thunderstorms.

The outbursts, known as terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), last only a few thousandths of a second, but their gamma rays rank among the highest-energy light that naturally occurs on Earth. The enhanced GBM discovery rate helped scientists show most TGFs also generate a strong burst of radio waves, a finding that will change how scientists study this poorly understood phenomenon.

Lightning emits a broad range of very low frequency (VLF) radio waves, often heard as pop-and-crackle static when listening to AM radio. The World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), a research collaboration operated by the University of Washington in Seattle, routinely detects these radio signals and uses them to pinpoint the location of lightning discharges anywhere on the globe to within about 12 miles (20 km).

Scientists have known for a long time TGFs were linked to strong VLF bursts, but they interpreted these signals as originating from lightning strokes somehow associated with the gamma-ray emission.

\"Instead, we've found when a strong radio burst occurs almost simultaneously with a TGF, the radio emission is coming from the TGF itself,\" said co-author Michael Briggs, a member of the GBM team.

The researchers identified much weaker radio bursts that occur up to several thousandths of a second before or after a TGF. They interpret these signals as intracloud lightning strokes related to, but not created by, the gamma-ray flash.

Scientists suspect TGFs arise from the strong electric fields near the tops of thunderstorms. Under certain conditions, the field becomes strong enough that it drives a high-speed upward avalanche of electrons, which give off gamma rays when they are deflected by air molecules.

\"What's new here is that the same electron avalanche likely responsible for the gamma-ray emission also produces the VLF radio bursts, and this gives us a new window into understanding this phenomenon,\" said Joseph Dwyer, a physics professor at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Fla., and a member of the study team.

Because the WWLLN radio positions are far more precise than those based on Fermi's orbit, scientists will develop a much clearer picture of where TGFs occur and perhaps which types of thunderstorms tend to produce them.

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The enhanced GBM discovery rate helped scientists show most TGFs also generate a strong burst of radio waves, a finding that will change how scientists study this poorly understood phenomenon.Lightning emits a broad range of very low frequency (VLF) radio waves, often heard as pop-and-crackle static when listening to AM radio. The World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), a research collaboration operated by the University of Washington in Seattle, routinely detects these radio signals and uses them to pinpoint the location of lightning discharges anywhere on the globe to within about 12 miles (20 km).Scientists have known for a long time TGFs were linked to strong VLF bursts, but they interpreted these signals as originating from lightning strokes somehow associated with the gamma-ray emission.\"Instead, we've found when a strong radio burst occurs almost simultaneously with a TGF, the radio emission is coming from the TGF itself,\" said co-author Michael Briggs, a member of the GBM team. The researchers identified much weaker radio bursts that occur up to several thousandths of a second before or after a TGF. They interpret these signals as intracloud lightning strokes related to, but not created by, the gamma-ray flash. 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No one knows the true nature of dark matter, but WIMPs, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, represent a leading class of candidates. Theorists have envisioned a wide range of WIMP types, some of which may either mutually annihilate or produce an intermediate, quickly decaying particle when they collide. Both of these pathways end with the production of gamma rays — the most energetic form of light — at energies within the detection range of Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT).The galactic center teems with gamma-ray sources, from interacting binary systems and isolated pulsars to supernova remnants and particles colliding with interstellar gas. It's also where astronomers expect to find the galaxy's highest density of dark matter, which only affects normal matter and radiation through its gravity. Large amounts of dark matter attract normal matter, forming a foundation upon which visible structures, like galaxies, are built. When the astronomers carefully subtract all known gamma-ray sources from LAT observations of the galactic center, a patch of leftover emission remains. This excess appears most prominent at energies between 1 and 3 billion electron volts (GeV) — roughly a billion times greater than that of visible light — and extends outward at least 5,000 light-years from the galactic center. The researchers find these features difficult to reconcile with other explanations proposed, such as undiscovered pulsars. The gamma-ray spectrum of the excess, its symmetry around the galactic center and its overall brightness, is, however, consistent with annihilations of dark matter particles in the mass range of 31 and 40 GeV. The scientists note that discoveries in other astronomical objects, such as dwarf galaxies, and experiments on Earth designed to directly detect dark matter particles will be needed to confirm this interpretation. 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Interviews with (in order of appearance): Peter Michaelson - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Principal Investigator, Stanford University Lynn Cominsky - GLAST Astrophysicist and Education and Public Outreach Lead, Sonoma State University David Thompson - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Kevin Grady - GLAST Project Manager, NASA Goddard Neil Johnson - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Deputy Principal Investigator, US Naval Research Lab Jonathan Ormes - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Senior Scientist Advisory Committee, University of Denver Charles \"Chip\" Meegan - GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Principal Investigator, NASA Marshall Luke Drury - Professor of Astronomy, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Per Carlson - Professor of Elementary Particle Physics, Manne Siegbahn Laboratory Isabelle Grenier - Principal Investigator of the GLAST French contribution, French Atomic Energy Commission || ", "release_date": "2008-08-05T12:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:12.205616-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 503324, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010300/a010324/GLASTcast_Episode_4_Launching_a_Spacecraft_640x480_ipod01568_print.jpg", "filename": "GLASTcast_Episode_4_Launching_a_Spacecraft_640x480_ipod01568_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The hopes and anticipations of the GLAST team as they prepare for launch. 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Interviews with (in order of appearance): Bill Atwood - GLAST Co-Creator, Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz David Thompson - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Julie McEnery - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Steve Ritz - GLAST Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Neil Gehrels - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Peter Michaelson - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Principal Investigator, Stanford University Kevin Grady - GLAST Project Manager, NASA Goddard Charles \"Chip\" Meegan - GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Principal Investigator, NASA Marshall || ", "release_date": "2008-08-05T01:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:12.332381-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 503336, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010300/a010325/GLASTcast_Episode_5_Meet_the_US_Team_640x480_ipod01002_print.jpg", "filename": "GLASTcast_Episode_5_Meet_the_US_Team_640x480_ipod01002_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Meet the major U.S. players behind the GLAST mission. For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 406011, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10357, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10357/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "GLASTcast Episode 6: 2008 Mission Update", "description": "The GLAST mission launched on June 11, 2008 and has been returning remarkable and revolutionary discoveries ever since. Recently renamed to the Fermi Space Telescope, after Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi, the mission is expected to discover dozens of new pulsars within its first year alone. The telescope is also giving us new insights into gamma-ray bursts and the massive jets that erupt from distant galaxies. Stay tuned — the mission of NASA's Fermi telescope is just getting started. || ", "release_date": "2008-12-21T23:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:59.653454-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 500560, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010300/a010357/GLASTcast_6_Mission_Update_640x360.01141_print.jpg", "filename": "GLASTcast_6_Mission_Update_640x360.01141_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "End of the year 2008 mission update on the GLAST/Fermi spacecraft.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 406012, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10345, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10345/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "GLASTcast in HD for Apple TV and iTunes", "description": "The Universe is home to numerous exotic and beautiful phenomena, some of which can generate inconceivable amounts of energy. GLAST will open a new window on this high-energy world. With GLAST, astronomers will have a superior tool to study how black holes, notorious for pulling matter in, can accelerate jets of gas outward at fantastic speeds. Physicists will be able to search for signals of new fundamental processes that are inaccessible in ground-based accelerators and observatories. GLAST's spectacular high-energy gamma-ray 'eyeglasses' will reveal hidden wonders, opening our minds to new possibilities and discoveries, expanding our understanding of the Universe and our place in it. || ", "release_date": "2008-08-25T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:07.134721-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 502095, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010300/a010345/GLASTcast_6_Mission_Update_1280x720_AppleTV01143_print.jpg", "filename": "GLASTcast_6_Mission_Update_1280x720_AppleTV01143_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "GLASTcast Episode 6: Mission UpdateEnd of the year 2008 mission update on the GLAST/Fermi spacecraft.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 406013, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10250, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10250/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "GLASTcast for iTunes", "description": "The GLAST mission launched on June 11, 2008 and has been returning remarkable and revolutionary discoveries ever since. Recently renamed to the Fermi Space Telescope, after Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi, the mission is expected to discover dozens of new pulsars within the first year alone. The telescope is also giving us new insights into gamma-ray bursts and the massive jets that erupt from distant galaxies. Stay tuned — the mission of NASA's Fermi telescope is just getting started. || ", "release_date": "2008-06-03T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:21.749373-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 505204, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010200/a010250/GLASTcast_6_Mission_Update_640x480_ipod01127_print.jpg", "filename": "GLASTcast_6_Mission_Update_640x480_ipod01127_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "GLASTcast Episode 6: 2008 Mission UpdateEnd of the year 2008 mission update on the GLAST/Fermi spacecraft.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 406014, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10169, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10169/", "page_type": "B-Roll", "title": "GLAST LAT Integration - B-Roll", "description": "In fall of 2006, the LAT was shipped to the General Dynamics facility in Arizona for integration onto the spacecraft bus. The General Dynamics spacecraft bus provides the power, data, and pointing resources that will enable the LAT to perform its survey of the Universe. Subsequent to the mechanical integration, the command, data, and power interfaces between the instrument and the spacecraft were tested rigorously to insure the compatibility of this spaceflight hardware that had been manufactured all around the globe. || ", "release_date": "2007-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:34.876912-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 507419, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010100/a010169/GLAST_LAT_Arrival_1280x720-H.264.0_print.jpg", "filename": "GLAST_LAT_Arrival_1280x720-H.264.0_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This footage shows the LAT instrument arriving on September 18, 2006.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 406015, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10165, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10165/", "page_type": "B-Roll", "title": "GLAST LAT Testing - B-Roll", "description": "The GLAST LAT (Large Area Telescope) was tested extensively during the summer of 2006 at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. The NRL also contributed to the GLAST project by managing the construction of the LAT Calorimeter. || ", "release_date": "2007-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:34.807479-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 507411, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010100/a010165/LATtesting_web.png", "filename": "LATtesting_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This footage shows the LAT instrument in the cleanroom at the NRL.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 406016, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10251, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10251/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "GLAST Prelude, for Brass Quintet, Op.12", "description": "NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institiutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S. Music composed by Nolan Gasser, © 2008 Music performed by the American Brass Quintet || ", "release_date": "2008-05-31T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:21.959269-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 505266, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010200/a010251/GLASTprelude_64000352_print.jpg", "filename": "GLASTprelude_64000352_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "GLAST PreludeCelebrating the launch and science of NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope. [GLAST has since been renamed to the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.]", "width": 1024, "height": 768, "pixels": 786432 } } }, { "id": 406017, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10322, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10322/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "GLAST Soundbites", "description": "Selected soundbites with Steve Ritz, GLAST Project Scientist; Peter Michelson, LAT Principal Investigator; Charles 'Chip' Meegan, GBM Principal Investigator. NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S. || ", "release_date": "2008-07-30T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:13.514249-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 503696, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010300/a010322/Steve_Ritz_Interview_640x48001152_print.jpg", "filename": "Steve_Ritz_Interview_640x48001152_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Selected soundbites with Steve Ritz, GLAST Project Scientist (NASA/GSFC)", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 406018, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 11311, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11311/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Highlights of Fermi's First Five Years", "description": "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. || ", "release_date": "2013-08-21T13:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:54.577831-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 463737, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011300/a011311/Fermi_Still.jpg", "filename": "Fermi_Still.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "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.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 406019, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10508, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10508/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Fermi All-Sky First Year Progress", "description": "This view of the gamma-ray sky constructed from one year of Fermi LAT observations is the best view of the extreme universe to date. The map shows the rate at which the LAT detects gamma rays with energies above 300 million electron volts — about 120 million times the energy of visible light — from different sky directions. Brighter colors equal higher rates. || ", "release_date": "2009-10-28T01:45:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:54:30.903017-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 495519, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010500/a010508/NEW_Fermi_All_Sky_Dissolve_512x288.00452_print.jpg", "filename": "NEW_Fermi_All_Sky_Dissolve_512x288.00452_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Sequence of dissolves showing the improvement in the Fermi all-sky map, from 1 week to 1 year.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 406020, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 10347, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10347/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "GLAST First Light All Sky Map", "description": "NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays. The spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments passed their orbital checkout with flying colors. NASA announced today that GLAST has been renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The new name honors Prof. Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954), a pioneer in high-energy physics. Scientists expect Fermi will discover many new pulsars in our own galaxy, reveal powerful processes near supermassive black holes at the cores of thousands of active galaxies across, and enable a search for signs of new physical laws. || ", "release_date": "2008-08-26T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:06.991290-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 502079, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010300/a010347/GLAST_first_light_all_sky_map.00052_print.jpg", "filename": "GLAST_first_light_all_sky_map.00052_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Orthographic MapAstronomers wrapped the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's first all-sky map over a sphere to produce this view of the gamma-ray universe. The globe in this animation rotates showing the galactic plane and the north galactic pole, then tilts up to show the south galactic pole region.", "width": 1024, "height": 768, "pixels": 786432 } } }, { "id": 406021, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 3439, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3439/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Simulations of the Gamma-Ray Sky", "description": "The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) will observe the sky in gamma-rays with energies between 10 million electron volts (MeV) to 300 billion electron volts (GeV) (a photon of visible light is roughly 2 electron volts). At these energies, the detectors will receive roughly 2 photons every second. At these energies, the objects visible will be active galaxies, quasars, pulsars, and gamma-ray bursts. This visualization is generated from one year of simulated photon event-lists using known sources. These event lists are used for testing the various data analysis software being developed for the project. Due to the extremely low event rate, it takes about one week of event accumulation to see structure in the sky. To generate the 600+ frames of this visualization, the event lists were box-car averaged for a duration of one week for each frame, and each frame shifted 50,000 seconds in time from the previous frame. The low angular resolution of gamma-ray detectors makes point sources appear spread out in the sky. In these maps, the color of each pixel represents the number of photons accumulated in that pixel (over an energy range of 10MeV-300GeV). Horizontally, across the center of the map, is the diffuse emission from the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy. The images are projected in galactic coordinates with a plate carrée projection so there is significant distortion with increasing latitude above the galactic disk. This emission in the galactic plane is created by pulsars and supernova remnants. Located away from this plane is emission from active galaxies and high-velocity pulsars. Occasionally, a bright spot appears which can be a gamma-ray burst or quasar in an active state. || ", "release_date": "2007-09-13T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:35.619222-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 507582, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003400/a003439/GLAST.0272.jpg", "filename": "GLAST.0272.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A frame from the movie. Notice that some sources visible in the first frame are no longer visible and some new sources have appeared.", "width": 2880, "height": 1440, "pixels": 4147200 } } } ], "extra_data": {} } ] }