Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope surveys the high-energy sky with the Large Area Telescope and Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. Together they study pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, black-hole-powered galaxies, cosmic particle acceleration, solar activity, and possible signatures of fundamental physics.
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Identity
- Aliases
- FermiGamma-ray Large Area Space TelescopeGLAST
- Name
- Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
- Slug
- fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope
- Status
- active
Details
- Astronauts
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- Description
- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope surveys the high-energy sky with the Large Area Telescope and Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. Together they study pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, black-hole-powered galaxies, cosmic particle acceleration, solar activity, and possible signatures of fundamental physics.
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- Outcome
- Fermi remains active in an extended mission, scanning the full sky about every three hours. Its discoveries include hundreds of gamma-ray pulsars, the enormous Fermi Bubbles above and below the Milky Way, and high-energy counterparts associated with gravitational-wave and neutrino events.
- Program
- Physics of the Cosmos
- Start Date
- 2008-06-11
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Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/fermi/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 18, 2026 at 14:48:30 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 18, 2026 at 14:48:30 UTC
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