{"id":237533,"date":"2026-05-21T02:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/nasas-fermi-glimpses-power-source-of-supercharged-supernovae"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:18:44","slug":"nasas-fermi-glimpses-power-source-of-supercharged-supernovae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/nasas-fermi-glimpses-power-source-of-supercharged-supernovae","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Fermi glimpses power source of supercharged supernovae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-fermi-glimpses-power-source-of-supercharged-supernovae2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LSU researchers helped uncover what may be the first clear detection of gamma rays from a superluminous supernova, using data from NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope\u2014a breakthrough that offers new insight into the powerful magnetars believed to drive some of the universe\u2019s brightest stellar explosions.<\/p>\n<p>An international team studying data from NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova. The researchers say it likely received its power-up from a supermagnetized neutron star born in the stellar collapse that triggered the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The Fermi mission is part of NASA\u2019s fleet of observatories monitoring the changing cosmos to help humanity better understand how the universe works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LSU researchers helped uncover what may be the first clear detection of gamma rays from a superluminous supernova, using data from NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope\u2014a breakthrough that offers new insight into the powerful magnetars believed to drive some of the universe\u2019s brightest stellar explosions. An international team studying data from NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237533","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}