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NASA's Fermi Satellite Maps Entire Sky, Finds Mysterious Unknown Object
StartsWithABang writes: With the launch of the Fermi satellite in the late 2000s, we began observing the highest energy photons in the Universe — gamma rays — all over the sky, to unprecedented precision. Produced from cosmic ray showers in space when high energy protons run into other, stationary protons, these gamma rays locate point sources from supermassive black holes to supernova remnants to pulsars. There is, additionally, a great correlation between the infrared sky and the gamma ray sky, since the great high-energy background scatters off of the diffuse infrared gas, producing gamma rays there as well. But while a great many sources can be correlated with known structures, Fermi reveals at least one unknown, intense behemoth that emits spectacularly in gamma rays.
It's just God.
the Virgo 3D Printer supercluster. When so much hype gets concentrated into one area, the hype density goes so high it splits space itself into new particles.
That site is completely out of control with trackers and third-party Javascript.
If I was in their web department I would do the honourable thing and commit seppuku.
Um. Does anyone have a non-forbes link?
Forbes won't allow me onto their site unless I turn off my ad blocker. Eat shit Forbes. Your rag of a magazine isn't worth being forced to look at your pop-ups.
Click to find out what happens next! http://scienceblogs.com/starts...
For obvious reasons...
corporate welfare.
Slashdot should not be accepting stories with links that refuse to work with AdBlock enabled.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
News stories with Forbes links are useless. You can't read them, and nobody's going to turn off their malware/ad blockers for them. At this time, Forbes is always a case of wait-until-someone-finds-another-link and check the comments for said link.
There seems to be some relationship between StartsWithABang and Forbes. All the submissions are to Forbes links.
StartsWithABang appears to be a shill and needs to be banned.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
This is clearly the aliens in their spacecraft, slamming into the interstellar medium, moving along at .9999999999999c, *heading straight for us*!!!!
This is not about ads. Why lie about that? The original poster said it was not about ads. Are you so hatefully calling him and his kind liars?
Adding hatred is what he wants.
They won't let us have safe spaces.
Exactly. When someone is against things that block those Republicans from adding hate messages, then they are supporting hate.
http://www.nasa.gov/content/fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope
Adding to web pages us part of the Republican's grand strategy.
You have to look for the truth buried within.
And without safe spaces, it's hard to form a hugbox.
That's no moon
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Is it shaped like a Big Boy?
Be relentless!
Yo mama so fat we're in her right now
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasas-fermi-space-telescope-sharpens-its-high-energy-vision
EXCELSIOR ENGINEER: Checking all systems, Captain. ...Send to Klingon High Command. 'This is Excelsior, a Federation starship. We have monitored a large explosion in your sector. Do you require assistance?' ...Magnify!
SULU: Don't tell me that was any meteor shower.
VALTANE: Negative, sir. The subspace shockwave originated at bearing three two three, mark seven five. Location. It's Praxis, sir. It's a Klingon moon.
SULU: Praxis is their key energy production facility.
RAND: Aye sir.
SULU: Mister Valtane, any more data?
VALTANE: Yes sir. I have confirmed the location of Praxis, sir, but...
SULU: What is it?
VALTANE: I cannot confirm the existence of Praxis.
SULU: On screen!
COMPUTER VOICE: Computer enhancement.
SULU: Praxis?
VALTANE: What's left of it, sir.
RAND: Captain, I'm getting a message from Praxis.
SULU: Let's have it.
KERLA (on viewscreen): This is Brigadier Kerla, speaking for the High Command. There has been an incident on Praxis. However everything is under control. We have no need for assistance. Obey treaty stipulations and remain outside the Neutral Zone. This transmission ends now.
SULU: An incident?
RAND: Do we report this, sir?
SULU: Are you kidding?
Fucking American idiots, can't even write properly. What does that even mean? "emits spectularly IN gamma rays".
The aliens have their drive unit pointed at us as they want to decelerate into our solar system and not fly right through it. Their drive emissions are tremendously blue shifted (into the gamma rays) since they are approaching at a fair percentage of the speed of light (and maybe the drive is outputting gamma rays to begin with).
The best way to verify this would be to look at the spectra of the gamma ray emissions and see if they are gradually being redshifted (slowing down). This would give us an idea of how fast they are decelerating and maybe when they will be arriving. Let's hope that their ship isn't really huge or that it's not pointed directly at us so that their drive won't scour away our atmosphere!
(They could also be using a huge solar sail and what we're seeing is the reflection of our own sun but they'd really have to be moving very very close to c in order for it to be reflected as gamma rays. In that case, since they would be traveling just behind the wavefront they would also have to be right on top of us!).
F'ck slashdot and it's clickbait spam... here's the real source:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasas-fermi-space-telescope-sharpens-its-high-energy-vision
Should not be accepted by the editors, due to Forbes' ad-blocker policy.
It's just planet Nibiru.
I thought it would be of interest that at least the Gamma Burst Monitor on Fermi is running the open source RTEMS real-time operating system. :)
There are multiple references but this is an easy to find one: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.0450... This paper details the hardware and some of the timing characteristics of the system. And it has some nice pictures.
This should actually function instead of being shit:
https://archive.is/lpUO9
This just set the record for the least scientifically accurate summary ever posted on Slashdot. I don't actually think one single word of it is true.
You think it is hype when they talk about "stationary protons"? What gave it away?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
I don't know what the deal is. I'm using Chrome + Adblock Plus and could view the site fine with no ads.
It's probably because I have "Adblock Warning Removal List" enabled. It blocks anti-adblock banners, etc when it can.
I also disable the "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" option.
FYI
Hi again. Looks like you’re still using an ad blocker.
Cheeky fuckers!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Saying "in gamma rays" is pithier than saying "in the gamma-ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum."
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Mysterious gamma ray source in space? Planet Hulk
It's the Great Pop-Up Ad.
Table-ized A.I.
"The entire Fermi map, if you’re wondering, contains some 61,000 gamma ray photons, a number that took 80 months of observations to collect. "
Wow.
Bert
Stop promoting Forbes on Slashdot please.
Here's some alternative links:
- http://www.redorbit.com/news/s...
- http://motherboard.vice.com/en...
- http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_...
- http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_...
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
D you really even the slightest difficulty parsing that? Because otherwise, it's not the Americans who are the idiots here.