Fermi Stories
NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae
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An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova. The researchers say it likely received its power-up from a supermagnetized neutron star born in the stellar collapse that triggered…
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NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site
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A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an environment like this before…
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NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles
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For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas from a cluster of young stars in our galaxy — insights that help us understand how the universe has evolved as NASA…
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