{"id":181267,"date":"2024-01-24T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope-detects-surprise-gamma-ray-feature-beyond-our-galaxy"},"modified":"2024-01-24T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:27:53","slug":"fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope-detects-surprise-gamma-ray-feature-beyond-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope-detects-surprise-gamma-ray-feature-beyond-our-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detects Surprise Gamma-Ray feature Beyond our Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope-detects-surprise-gamma-ray-feature-beyond-our-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers analyzing 13 years of data from NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found an unexpected and as yet unexplained feature outside of our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a completely serendipitous discovery,\u201d said Alexander Kashlinsky, a cosmologist at the University of Maryland and NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, who presented the research at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in New Orleans. \u201cWe found a much stronger signal, and in a different part of the sky, than the one we were looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Intriguingly, the gamma-ray signal is found in a similar direction and with a nearly identical magnitude as another unexplained feature, one produced by some of the most energetic cosmic particles ever detected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers analyzing 13 years of data from NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found an unexpected and as yet unexplained feature outside of our galaxy. \u201cIt is a completely serendipitous discovery,\u201d said Alexander Kashlinsky, a cosmologist at the University of Maryland and NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, who presented the research at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181267","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}