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July 08 News & Notes.

  Eris, Xena, or Plutoid? Note tiny Dysnomia to the right. (Credit, APOD & NASA). Attack of the Plutoids? On June 11th, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) handed down yet another definition...

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23.10.09:Fermi Pegs Gamma-Ray Pulsars.

NASA’s Large Area Telescope aboard the orbiting Fermi gamma-ray observatory continues to turn out some amazing science, picking up where Compton left off in 2002 as it surveys the gamma-ray sky. Of...

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30.03.10- Fermi: On the Hunt for Dark Matter.

     One of the major astrophysical mysteries of our time may be on the verge of being solved. Namely, where is 85% of our universe? That’s the amount that is predicted to be composed of enigmatic dark...

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01.06.10: Do Primordial Magnetic Fields Roam the Cosmos?

     NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have uncovered a new high energy mystery. Like our own Earth, galaxies and even large scale galaxy clusters have magnetic fields shrouding them. The...

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The Great Orbiting Observatory Series: Part III: Gamma-Ray Telescopes.

Compton is placed into orbit by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. (Credit: NASA/Art Explosion).    By far, the portion of the spectrum with the coolest Science fiction-friendly name is gamma-ray. The highest...

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