Fermi Discovers Giant Gamma-ray Bubbles
Credit | NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Historical Date | November 9, 2010 |
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Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists discovered a gigantic, mysterious structure in our galaxy. This feature looks like a pair of bubbles extending above and below our galaxy's center. Each lobe is 25,000 light-years tall and the whole structure may be only a few million years old.
More information: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10688