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The Gamma ray sky

author: Nasa/DOE/Novapix

reference: a-vlc12-00002

Image Size 300 DPI: 28 * 14 cm

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.

Keywords for this photo:

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