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NASA's Fermi Satellite Maps Entire Sky, Finds Mysterious Unknown Object

Posted by timothy on from the best-kind-of-unknown-object dept.

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.

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  1. Re:fucking forbes by hduff · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even that story links to Forbes for the "Answer".

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  2. Re:fucking forbes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or to be slightly less of an ass:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_Gamma-ray_Space_Telescope

    http://www.universetoday.com/19879/fermi-telescope-makes-first-big-discovery-gamma-ray-pulsar/
    (This one comes with a movie!)

    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/gr_pulsar.html

    https://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5942/840
    (This one is an actual paper!)

  3. Or, just go to the source . . . by Shane+McEwan · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.nasa.gov/content/fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope

  4. Non-Forbes link (Nasa.gov) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasas-fermi-space-telescope-sharpens-its-high-energy-vision

  5. Re:Blocked Because I'm Using AdBlock? by thegarbz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Slashdot should not be accepting stories from some blogger who decides to simply re-link every single one of his articles for free Slashvertising without every contributing to the site, period. The shittyness of the resulting site not withstanding.

    Startswithabang has a post count of 1 and a submission count of 119.

  6. Re:Submitter and Forbes Relationship? by thegarbz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not at all. All of his submissions however are to his own blogs. EVERY SINGLE ONE. This dates back before Forbes when he was peddling his clickbate on Medium.

    He has made 1 post in the past year.
    He has had 119 stories on the front page.

    He's not a shill, he's just someone using Slashdot as his own personal advertising platform.

  7. Re:Click by thegarbz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Click to find out what happens next!

    Or better yet, don't click at all, and let this idiot who's using Slashdot as his personal advertising platform for every single one of his blogposts disappear into obscurity.

  8. Re:Submitter and Forbes Relationship? by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Slashdot is getting paid to accept these submissions (along with HughPickens, etc). They arent getting on the front page via firehose/merit.

  9. Stop Promoting Forbes on /. by Hylandr · · Score: 4, Informative

    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_...

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