WASHINGTON: Stargazers can now spot constellations of their favourite modern legends like ‘The Little Prince’, ‘Godzilla’, ‘Star Trek’, and ‘Hulk’ in the night-sky.
However, these constellations are not made up or stars. It is an astronomic artwork of gamma rays to mark a decade long service of Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, NASA has established 21 gamma-ray constellations to salute the modern mythos, reports Japan Today.
“Developing these unofficial constellations was a fun way to highlight a decade of Fermi’s accomplishments,” said Julie McEnery, the Fermi project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “One way or another, all of the gamma-ray constellations have a tie-in to Fermi science.”
Since July 2008, Fermi’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been scanning the entire sky each day, mapping and measuring sources of gamma rays, the highest-energy light in the universe. The emission may come from pulsars, nova outbursts, the debris of supernova explosions and giant gamma-ray bubbles located in our own galaxy, or supermassive black holes and gamma-ray bursts the most powerful explosions in the cosmos in others. (AGENCIES)
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