{"id":238694,"date":"2026-06-10T06:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/nasas-fermi-telescope-reveals-the-power-source-behind-monster-supernovae"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:02:52","slug":"nasas-fermi-telescope-reveals-the-power-source-behind-monster-supernovae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/nasas-fermi-telescope-reveals-the-power-source-behind-monster-supernovae","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Fermi telescope reveals the power source behind monster supernovae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-fermi-telescope-reveals-the-power-source-behind-monster-supernovae.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Fermi telescope has detected what may be the first confirmed gamma-ray signal from a superluminous supernova \u2014 one of the most extreme explosions in the universe. Scientists believe the blast was powered by a rapidly spinning magnetar, an exotic neutron star with unbelievably strong magnetic fields. The event, called SN 2017egm, erupted 440 million light-years away and may help explain why some supernovae become extraordinarily bright.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have finally uncovered what powers some of the brightest stellar explosions ever observed. After studying years of data, an international research team found strong evidence that a rare superluminous supernova was energized by an extremely magnetic neutron star formed during the star\u2019s collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The Fermi mission is part of NASA\u2019s network of observatories designed to track changing events across the universe and help scientists better understand how cosmic phenomena work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Fermi telescope has detected what may be the first confirmed gamma-ray signal from a superluminous supernova \u2014 one of the most extreme explosions in the universe. Scientists believe the blast was powered by a rapidly spinning magnetar, an exotic neutron star with unbelievably strong magnetic fields. The event, called SN 2017egm, erupted 440 million [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238694","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=238694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}