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The Gamma ray sky

author: Nasa/DOE/Novapix

reference: a-vlc12-00003

Image Size 300 DPI: 29 * 17 cm

All-sky image seen in gamma ray showing the glowing gas of the Milky Way, blinking pulsars, and galaxies billions of light-years away. The all-sky image released today shows us how the cosmos would look if our eyes could detect radiation 150 million times more energetic than visible light. The view merges Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST) observations spanning 87 days, from August 4 to October 30, 2008. FGST has been launched on june 11 2008.

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2008 - 2009 - ASTRONOMY - FALSE COLOR - FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE - FGST - GALAXY - GAMMA - MILKY WAY - NEUTRON STAR - PULSAR - STAR -