Fermi mission links nearby pulsar's gamma-ray 'halo' to antimatter puzzle
Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 13:10
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a faint but sprawling glow of high-energy light around a nearby pulsar. If visible to the human eye, this gamma-ray "halo" would appear about 40 times bigger in the sky than a full Moon. This structure may provide the solution to a long-standing mystery about the amount of antimatter in our neighborhood.