NASA: Finds Giant Gamma-Ray Bubbles In Our Galaxy

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NASA's Fermi Finds Giant, Previously Unseen Structure In Our Galaxy
2nd Nov 2010

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 9, to discuss a new discovery by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of light. The soon-to-be published findings include the discovery of enormous but previously unrecognized "gamma-ray bubbles" centered in the Milky Way.

Teleconference panelists are:
- Jon Morse, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Julie McEnery, Fermi project scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
- Doug Finkbeiner, associate professor of astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
- Simona Murgia, Fermi research associate, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif.
- David Spergel, astrophysicist, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
[link to www.nasa.gov]
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/no ... lecon.html

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The original story about this came out back in June 2010

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... -blac.html