Fermi telescope probes dozens of pulsars
Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 20:07
in Astronomy & Space
With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars. In two studies published in the 2 July edition of Science Express, international teams have analysed gamma-rays from two dozen pulsars, including 16 discovered by Fermi. Fermi is the first spacecraft able to identify pulsars by their gamma-ray emission alone...