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This image compresses the Vela movie [bit.ly/Y2K4LN] sequence into a single snapshot by merging pie-slice sections from eight individual frames.
Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
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NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope (LAT) sweeps across the entire sky every three hours, capturing the highest-energy form of light -- gamma rays -- from sources across the universe. These range from supermassive black holes billions of light-years away to intriguing objects in our own galaxy, such as X-ray binaries, supernova remnants and pulsars.
Now a Fermi scientist has transformed LAT data of a famous pulsar into a mesmerizing movie that visually encapsulates the spacecraft's complex motion. Click here to continue reading: 1.usa.gov/WhYwCU
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Fireflies on the Betz Prairie at dusk.
214 stacked images for a total of ~15 minutes of exposure using Startrails.exe. Looks awesomer full-screen.
Seen in July 11th's Fermilab Today
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) from inside the main building's atrium (previous shot - www.flickr.com/photos/7604565@N06/4539468538/in/photostream/ )
Does anyone else think this is what people in 1970 thought the future would look like?
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The Vela pulsar outlines a fascinating pattern in this movie showing 51 months of position and exposure data from Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). The pattern reflects numerous motions of the spacecraft, including its orbit around Earth, the precession of its orbital plane, the manner in which the LAT nods north and south on alternate orbits, and more. The movie renders Vela's position in a fisheye perspective, where the middle of the pattern corresponds to the central and most sensitive portion of the LAT's field of view. The edge of the pattern is 90 degrees away from the center and well beyond what scientists regard as the effective limit of the LAT's vision. Better knowledge of how the LAT's sensitivity changes across its field of view helps Fermi scientists better understand both the instrument and the data it returns.
Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
Download video in HD formats: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?11205
Watch this video on YouTube: youtu.be/_QpMeEdmZPM
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NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope (LAT) sweeps across the entire sky every three hours, capturing the highest-energy form of light -- gamma rays -- from sources across the universe. These range from supermassive black holes billions of light-years away to intriguing objects in our own galaxy, such as X-ray binaries, supernova remnants and pulsars.
Now a Fermi scientist has transformed LAT data of a famous pulsar into a mesmerizing movie that visually encapsulates the spacecraft's complex motion. Click here to continue reading: 1.usa.gov/WhYwCU
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, where space and time collide, and where anti-matter gathers...this is the main lobby
A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, and designated GRB 130427A, produced the highest-energy light ever detected from such an event.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/shocking-burst.html
Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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24 Horas de Barcelona de Automovilismo-Trofeo Fermà Vélez
5 - 7 septiembre 2014 / Circuit de Barcelona
Launched on June 11, 2008, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed by NASA in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the United States. Working together, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM), serve as powerful tools for studying gamma-ray bursts, particularly for time-resolved spectral studies over a very large energy band. The development of the GBM and analysis of its observational data is a collaborative effort between the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Germany.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC
Original image:
www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/fermi_140613.html
Marshall History Album on Flickr:
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL. America's premier lab for particle physics and accelerator research. The international team of physicists here collaborate with scientists around the world to advance our knowledge of subatomic particles. Their special interest is neutrinos. Tours are fascinating!!!
El Saint-Nectaire es un queso francés de la región de los montes Dore de Auvernia, con denominación AOC desde 1955. Su nombre le fue dado en honor al mariscal de Francia Henri, duque de la Ferté-Senneterre (1600-1681) que presentó este queso en la mesa del rey Luis XIV.
Es un queso de leche de vaca procedente de la raza Salers, de pasta prensada cruda, de un peso aproximado de 1,7 kg. en forma de disco plano. Su corteza natural está salpicada de manchas blancas, amarillas o rojas según sea su estado de madurez.
Su perÃodo de degustación más óptimo va desde mayo a octubre tras un afinado de 8 a 10 semanas, aunque puede consumirse desde marzo hasta diciembre. Tiene un caracterÃstico sabor a avellana y un ligero olor a champiñón, debido a la flora aromática de los pastos del Mont-Dore, del paÃs de Cézallier y de Artense.
Fermier significa en francés artesano de granja en este queso se madura en un lecho de paja lo que parece absorber algo del aroma terroso y pastoril.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,located in Batavia near Chicago, used to be the highest energy particle accelerator (1.96 TeraVolt) with its circumferance of 6.3 Km. Experiments are conducted here from all around the world at all time of the day. They say fermilab never sleeps, scientists from different counties are connected to the facility by high-definition audio visual communication channel. Most of the modern particles like quarks and neutrinos were discovered here.
This visit to Fermilab was very special to me. Back in those high school years, I was really interested in physics, specially in modern particle physics. I used to get hard copy of the newsletters from this lab and every issue used to be a huge package of excitement for me. Now my interests are pretty much strayed away from physics but still it feels good to revisit it.
The sculpture marks the spot where Enrico Fermi & Co. created the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1941. These experiments were conducted on the squash court underneath the stands on the west end of Stagg Field on the University of Chicago campus. Stagg field was eventually torn down to make room for the Regenstein library in the background.
This is the way it looked in 1981. Recently an additional building has been constructed just to the south of the sculpture and the bushes in the background are no longer there, making it impossible to re-take the shot with a digital camera. Of course, I have tried, but this old fashioned Kodachrome shot is still the best I've been able to do.
Fermi II nuclear power plant on a clear day. #fermi #nuclear #nuclearpower #nuclearpowerplant #lakeerie #holidaybeach #blackandwhite #mono #monochrome #industriallandscape
Another image for all of you "closet physicists" from the bubble-chamber at Fermi Lab in my personal collection.
the absence of evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence. For the type ofestimation problem, see Fermi problem. For the music album, see Fermi Paradox (album). For the short story, see The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model.A graphical representation of the Arecibo message – Humanity's first
attempt to use radio waves to actively communicate its existence to alien civilizations. The Fermi paradox (or Fermi's paradox) is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and humanity's lack of contact with, or evidence for, such civilizations.[1] The basic points of the argument,
made by physicists Enrico Fermi and Michael H. Hart, are:
• The Sun is a young star. There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are billions of years older;• Some of these stars likely have Earth-like planets[2] which, if the Earth is typical, may develop intelligent life;• Presumably some of these civilizations will develop interstellar travel, as Earth seems likely to do;• At any practical pace of interstellar travel, the galaxy can be completely colonized in just a few tens of millions of years.According to this line of thinking, the Earth should have already been colonized, or at least visited. But no convincing evidence of this exists.Furthermore, no confirmed signs of intelligence elsewhere have been spotted, either in our galaxy or the more than 80 billion other galaxies of
the observable universe. Hence Fermi's question "Where is everybody?"
brainu.org/files/wikipedia_fermi_paradox_information.pdf
Frank Drake in 1961 in an attempt to find a systematic means to evaluate the numerous probabilities involved in the existence of alien life. The speculative equation considers the rate of star formation in the galaxy; the fraction of stars with planets and the number per star that are habitable; the fraction of those planets that develop life; the fraction that develop intelligent life; the fraction that have detectable, technological intelligent life; and finally the length of time such communicable civilizations are detectable. The fundamental problem is that the last four terms are completely unknown, rendering statistical estimates impossible.There are two parts of the Fermi paradox that rely on empirical evidence—that there are many potential habitable planets, and that we see no evidence of life. The first point, that many suitable planets exist, was an assumption in Fermi's time that is gaining ground with the discovery of many exoplanets, and models predicting billions of habitable worlds in our galaxy..The second part of the paradox, that we see no evidence of extraterrestrial life, is also an active field of scientific research. This includes both efforts to find any indication of life,[36] and efforts specifically directed to finding intelligent life. These searches have been made since 1960, and several are ongoing?Those who think that intelligent extraterrestrial life is (nearly) impossible argue that the conditions needed for the evolution of life—or at least the evolution of biological complexity—are rare or even unique to Earth. Under this assumption, called the rare Earth hypothesis, a rejection of the mediocrity principle, complex multicellular life is regarded as exceedingly unusual.The Rare Earth hypothesis argues that the evolution of biological complexity requires a host of fortuitous circumstances, such as a galactic habitable zone, a central star and planetary system having the requisite character, the circumstellar habitable zone, a right sized terrestrial planet, the advantage of a giant guardian like Jupiter and a large natural satellite, conditions needed to ensure the planet has a magnetosphere and plate tectonics, the chemistry of the lithosphere, atmosphere, and oceans, the role of "evolutionary pumps" such as massive glaciation and rare bolide impacts, and whatever led to the appearance of the eukaryote cell, sexual reproduction and the Cambrian explosion.This is the argument that technological civilizations may usually or invariably destroy themselves before or shortly after developing radio or spaceflight technology. Possible means of annihilation are many,[68] including war, accidental environmental contamination, or poorly designed artificial intelligence. This general theme is explored both in fiction and in scientific hypothesizing. In 1966, Sagan and Shklovskii speculated that technological civilizations will either tend to destroy themselves within a century of developing interstellar communicative capability or master their self-destructive tendencies and survive for billion-year timescales.Self-annihilation may also be viewed in terms of thermodynamics: insofar as life is an ordered system that can sustain itself against the tendency to disorder, the "external transmission" or interstellar communicative phase may be the point at which the system becomes unstable and self-destructs.Another hypothesis is that an intelligent species beyond a certain point of technological capability will destroy other intelligent species as they appear. The idea that something, or someone, might be destroying intelligent life in the universe has been explored in the scientific literature. A species might undertake such extermination out of expansionist motives, paranoia, or aggression. In 1981, cosmologist Edward Harrison argued that such behavior would be an act of prudence: an intelligent species that has overcome its own self-destructive tendencies might view any other species bent on galactic expansion as a threat It has also been suggested that a successful alien species would be a superpredator, as are humans.New life might commonly die out due to runaway heating or cooling on their fledgling planets.On Earth, there have been numerous major extinction events that destroyed the majority of complex species alive at the time; the extinction of the dinosaurs is the best known example. These are thought to have been caused by events such as impact from a large meteorite, massive volcanic eruptions, or astronomical events such as gamma-ray bursts.[76] It may be the case that such extinction events are common throughout the universe and periodically destroy intelligent life, or at least its civilizations, before the species is able to develop the technology to communicate with other species.
Fermi. Batavia, Illinois.
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I made a coyote calendar. Check it out at: www.cafepress.com/hardrain1
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Discovers Most Extreme Blazars Yet scienceofcycles.com/fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope-disco...
Coyotes at Fermi. Yesterday I went looking for one of those cute "animals in love" moments for Valentine's Day. This is as close as I got.
I made a coyote calendar. Check it out at: www.cafepress.com/hardrain1
This male was with two females. He attempted to breed with the second as well. I did some research on coyote breeding habits and found conflicting information. Some sources state they are monogomous. Some state that the alpha male mates with all the females of a pack. I do not know if the coyotes at Fermi form a pack. I see them alone or in pairs. This is the first time I have seen three together. In other areas I have seen true packs of eight or so.
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Extremely busy of late. New job assignment has me working long hours M-F and weekend schedules are full watching my kids play soccer, basketball, and softball. My previous assignment had quite a few weekdays off when the kids were in school...perfect for photography.
1902 - This baby is enrico fermi with his nurse colini marietta .
1902 -Questo bimbo e' enrico fermi con la sua balia colini marietta di ceccano !!!!
This is just one of a bunch of pics I took at yesterday's Fermilab Photowalk at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Just a handfull of pics to show off with more to come. The public spaces at Fermilab are neat and well worth a visit, but if you ever get the chance to go behind the scenes, at a place like this, TAKE IT! Fermilab, Batavia, IL