{"id":36150,"date":"2011-06-11T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/happy-birthday-glastfermi-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-06-11T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T18:00:06","slug":"happy-birthday-glastfermi-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/happy-birthday-glastfermi-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, GLAST\/Fermi! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 11, 2008 — three years ago today — NASA launched the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope<\/a> into orbit:<\/p>

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Fermi — as it was renamed once it reached orbit, after the great Italian scientist Enrico Fermi — is designed to observe gamma rays, the highest energy flavor of light. Gamma rays are only emitted from the most violent events in the universe: black holes gobbling down matter, exploding stars, antimatter particles annihilating each other, and so on. Fermi surveys the sky day after day, returning gobs of data to waiting scientists.<\/p>

I was involved with Fermi when it was still called GLAST. Long before launch, I signed on to do education and public outreach for GLAST at Sonoma State University. Along with our team, I wrote web pages and helped create educational activities — including classroom lessons, a card game, a paper model of GLAST, a planetarium show, a PBS NOVA episode… we even built a small observatory near the University to augment GLAST observations<\/a>! You can find all this on the SSU Fermi website<\/a>.<\/p>

Fermi has been a very successful mission, and I’m proud ...<\/p>

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