images

The Gamma ray sky

by

Nasa/DOE/Novapix

Reference

a-vlc12-00002

Date

2008-08-27

All-sky image seen in gamma ray showing the glowing gas of the Milky Way, blinking pulsars, and a flaring galaxy billions of light-years away. The map combines 95 hours of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (FGST) instrument's "first light" observations. FGST has been launched on june 11 2008.