Fermi sees brightest-ever blazar flare
Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 04:28
in Astronomy & Space
A galaxy located billions of light-years away is commanding the attention of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and astronomers around the globe. Thanks to a series of flares that began September 15, the galaxy is now the brightest source in the gamma-ray sky - more than ten times brighter than it was in the summer...