{"id":161569,"date":"2023-04-05T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T17:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/mind-bending-animation-shows-how-the-universe-would-look-if-we-could-see-gamma-rays"},"modified":"2023-04-05T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T17:23:05","slug":"mind-bending-animation-shows-how-the-universe-would-look-if-we-could-see-gamma-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/mind-bending-animation-shows-how-the-universe-would-look-if-we-could-see-gamma-rays","title":{"rendered":"Mind-Bending Animation Shows How The Universe Would Look if We Could See Gamma Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-bending-animation-shows-how-the-universe-would-look-if-we-could-see-gamma-rays2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of the light streaming through the Universe is invisible to human eyes. Beyond the mid-range wavelengths we can see, there\u2019s a whole cosmos shining in high-and low-energy radiation.<\/p>\n<p>But we humans are clever little animals and have managed to build instruments that can see the light we cannot. One of these is NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, an observatory hanging out in low-Earth orbit, monitoring the sky for gamma rays, the highest-energy light in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Fermi constantly surveils the entire sky, observing gamma-ray sources and how they change over time, providing astronomers with a map of the various producers of gamma radiation that we can detect. This data is compiled into a catalog that scientists can use to probe the production of gamma radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the light streaming through the Universe is invisible to human eyes. Beyond the mid-range wavelengths we can see, there\u2019s a whole cosmos shining in high-and low-energy radiation. But we humans are clever little animals and have managed to build instruments that can see the light we cannot. One of these is NASA\u2019s Fermi [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}