NASA’s Fermi Mission Nets 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars … and Counting

A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, while another 34 suspects await confirmation. This is 27 times the number known before the mission launched in 2008. “Pulsars touch on a wide range of astrophysics research, from cosmic rays and […]
Posted on November 28, 2023
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

354
1
3
2
1
11
2
1
1
16
1
1
4
14
13
18
2
14
21
3
57
1
3
13
63
4
38
6
2
25
17
3
110
4
13
1
5
271
12
227
1
5
6
Io
5
1
10
1
1
155
10
10
10
3
1
8
14
1
1
30
2
379
45
2
4
642
10
2
6
17
2
1
1
7
3
1
29
198
1
6
6
1
203
1

Blog Posts

Newsletter Archive