NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day


2024 August 21 - Fermi's 12-Year All-Sky Gamma-Ray Map

August 21, 2024

In today's image, we see a map of the entire sky as imaged in Gamma rays by the Fermi Space Telescope. The red line across the middle is our own Milky Way and the dots scattered around the image are gamma ray emission from distant galaxies.


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