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| Written by Aleya Riyaz |
| Saturday, 24 October 2009 04:18 |
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{description}Ever wonder what you would see if you could look into other regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, if you could look beyond the narrow region of visible light into infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays, even gamma rays? That is the question scientists from across the world are seeking to answer. Three hundred and fifty miles above us, travelling at more than four miles per second, is the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, taking a picture of the entire sky in the gamma ray region every three hours.Fermi, formerly GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope), is providing new data on the most extreme conditions and exotic phenomena in the universe. From supermassive black holes, emitting jets of particles travelling close to the speed of light, to dense neutron stars, some of which spin more than six hundred times per second, Fermi is pushing the outer limits of our view of the universe.{/description} {description}Looking beyond the visible electromagnetic spectrum{/description} |
| Last Updated on Saturday, 24 April 2010 23:45 |



