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Sunday, 31 January 2010 05:17
Firefly to study Earth's natural particle accelerator
Gamma rays bursts are powerful phenomena that occur in exotic places, like black holes. Scientists were pretty surprised when they found local gamma ray bursts in Earth's upper atmosphere. Now, NASA's Firefly satellite will study them in greater detail.
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 18:27
GLAST renamed Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
NASA announced in February 2008 that it was holding a contest to re-name its Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST. The new name—Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope—was announced by NASA in August 2008 to honor Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954).
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:14
ABC NewsRadio axes StarStuff program - why?
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has
axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert
funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and
cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 01:37
Gamma ray telescope launched into space by NASA
NASA successfully launches its Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) at 12:05 p.m. EDT (1605 GMT) on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 21:42
GLAST study of black holes set to launch June 3, 2008
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is scheduled to launch Tuesday, June 3, 2008, for its mission to analyze exotic phenomena, such as supermassive black holes, all over the Universe that generate enormous amounts of very energetic gamma radiation.
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 20:05
You can re-name the GLAST space telescope for NASA
NASA is asking for suggestions from the peoples of Earth on a new name for its Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope.
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