Research
NASA telescope reveals 450 gamma-ray sources in unexplored energy range
Nanowerk ·
The Brief
- Fourteen years of Fermi telescope data reveal around 450 gamma-ray sources.
- The count roughly doubles the known objects in this energy range.
- About 15% of the newly found sources remain unidentified.
Why it matters
The catalogue expands the known population of gamma-ray sources in a previously sparsely mapped energy range, giving astronomers more targets to study and more unidentified objects to classify.
Who’s affected
- astronomers and high-energy astrophysicists
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Fourteen years of Fermi telescope data reveal around 450 gamma-ray sources, doubling the known objects in this energy range, with 15% still unidentified.