Fermi Telescope

GLAST has a sky map, first results, pretty pictures and movies, and a new name.

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope



Gamma-ray sky (click for annotated hi-res version).

Lots of fun stuff at the NASA press release site, go browse.

h/t GLAST blog

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