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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/main/index.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080611143818.htm
11 June launch went smoothly, as far as I can tell.
Anybody hear further news?
This page has some tutorials about why gammaray astronomy is especially interesting
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080611143818.htm
here is an example of one of them
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/science/blazers.html
which is about the jets sent out (by a mechanism not fully understood) from the supermassive black holes at the center of some galaxies
here is another of their tutorials, about gammaray bursts (GRBs)
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/science/gammay_ray_bursts.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080611143818.htm
11 June launch went smoothly, as far as I can tell.
Anybody hear further news?
This page has some tutorials about why gammaray astronomy is especially interesting
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080611143818.htm
here is an example of one of them
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/science/blazers.html
which is about the jets sent out (by a mechanism not fully understood) from the supermassive black holes at the center of some galaxies
here is another of their tutorials, about gammaray bursts (GRBs)
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/science/gammay_ray_bursts.html
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