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October 27th, 2009

Great Energy As First Anniversary Of NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope


Fermi It's been one year, and so NASA will conduct a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, October 28, to discuss the first-year science results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. This event replaces the originally scheduled October 29 media conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
This artist's concept shows the core of an active galaxy, where a feeding supermassive black hole drives oppositely directed particle jets. Credit: ESA/NASA/AVO/Paolo Padovani

Fermi studies gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light. Findings discussed will include measurements relevant to the search for new theories of gravity.

The panelists are:
  • Jon Morse, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
  • Julie McEnery, Fermi project scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
  • Peter Michelson, Fermi Large Area Telescope principal investigator, Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
  • Robert Kirshner, professor of astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Mario Livio, astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.