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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: Opening a Window on the Extreme Universe

Published on Mar 19, 2019190 Views

Since its launch in 2008, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Mission has made major discoveries on the nature of the high-energy sky. Fermi’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) one of the instruments on the satelli

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Exploring Nature’s Accelerators with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope00:00
The Sky at Night - 100:07
The Sky at Night - 200:25
The Gamma - ray Sky - 100:45
The Gamma - ray Sky - 201:06
The Gamma - ray Sky - 302:06
The Gamma - ray Sky - 402:55
The Gamma - ray Sky - 503:25
The Gamma - ray Sky - 603:44
The Gamma - ray Sky - 704:20
Gamma - ray Astrophysics04:54
Fermi Observatory06:48
Detecting Gamma - rays08:07
Large Area Telescope - 109:00
Large Area Telescope - 209:29
Large Area Telescope - 310:42
The Sky Above 1 GeV11:09
The Sky Above 50 GeV11:26
Surveying the Sky12:03
The Variable Gamma - ray Sky12:52
Gamma - ray Burst Monitor14:34
Bursts of Gamma - rays from Near and Far - 115:06
Bursts of Gamma - rays from Near and Far - 215:14
Bursts of Gamma - rays from Near and Far - 315:43
Bursts of Gamma - rays from Near and Far - 416:01
Selected Results from the last 10 years16:15
2008 - Solving a mystery and opening a new field16:42
Now have over 200 Fermi - detected pulsars19:13
2009: Antimatter from Thunderstorms - 120:32
2009: Antimatter from Thunderstorms - 223:02
2009: Antimatter from Thunderstorms - 323:31
2010: Fermi Bubbles - 124:02
2010: Fermi Bubbles - 224:46
2011 - A not so standard candle25:10
2012: A High Energy Solar Flare26:51
2013: Dark Matter At the Galactic Center?27:28
2014: Stellar Novae Produce High Energy Gamma-rays29:33
2015: Gamma -ray periodicity in an Active Galaxy31:11
2016: A Sharper View31:40
2016: Resolving a Proton Accelerator32:26
2017: Gamma - ray Burst and Gravitational Waves - 133:46
2017: Gamma - ray Burst and Gravitational Waves - 234:46
Fermi Highlights and Discoveries35:50
The first 10 years of Fermi have been great37:53