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Jul 23, 2018
Fermi Science Finals
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Fermi Science Finals
Image Credit & Copyright: Astronomy Picture of the Day -- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Courtesy of http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
The Fermi Science Playoffs
celebrate 10 years
of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's
exploration of the
high-energy universe.
Surviving all early rounds of voting,
these two finalists in the competion square off at last.
Digital illustrations from a list of 16 of Fermi's top
scientific discoveries, they represent
the
competition's two top seeds, defeating 12th seed
New
Clues to Dark Matter and 14th seed
Starquakes
in Magnetar Storm in the semifinal round.
On the left are unprecedented, unpredicted, 25,000 light-year tall
Gamma-ray
Bubbles above and below the plane of our Milky Way galaxy.
On the right, violently merging
Neutron
Stars Collide to create the
first gamma-ray detected gravitational wave event.
Pick one now and
cast
your vote here to crown the most popular science result
from Fermi's first decade.
