Showing posts with label FERMI. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 3, 2012

NASA VIDEO: EXPLORATION OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE





NASA's Fermi Explores the Early Universe


This animation tracks several gamma rays through space and time, from their emission in the jet of a distant blazar to their arrival in Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). During their journey, the number of randomly moving ultraviolet and optical photons (blue) increases as more and more stars are born in the universe. Eventually, one of the gamma rays encounters a photon of starlight and the gamma ray transforms into an electron and a positron. The remaining gamma-ray photons arrive at Fermi, interact with tungsten plates in the LAT, and produce the electrons and positrons whose paths through the detector allows astronomers to backtrack the gamma rays to their source.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Cruz ...

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