Seeing the Sky with Different Eyes

Cosmic Variance
By Sean Carroll
Aug 29, 2008 1:42 AMNov 5, 2019 8:16 AM

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I just got back from the Cosmo-08 conference in Madison, which was great fun (and I'm sorry I had to miss the last couple of days). But just because I'm traveling, doesn't mean that science stops happening. It just means I might be late in blogging about it, if I were moved to do so, which in this case I am. The big news is that the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, a satellite observatory launched back in June, reached two milestones: (1) it got a name change, from GLAST to the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (on the theory that not enough things are named after Fermi), and (2) they released the first new picture of the gamma-ray sky! And here it is; click for higher resolution.

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