{"id":85613,"date":"2018-12-08T07:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T15:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/how-did-the-nasa-fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope-measure-all-the-starlight-produced-over-90-of-the-universes-history"},"modified":"2018-12-08T07:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T15:02:58","slug":"how-did-the-nasa-fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope-measure-all-the-starlight-produced-over-90-of-the-universes-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/how-did-the-nasa-fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope-measure-all-the-starlight-produced-over-90-of-the-universes-history","title":{"rendered":"How did the NASA Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope measure all the starlight produced over 90% of the universe\u2019s history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-did-the-nasa-fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope-measure-all-the-starlight-produced-over-90-of-the-universes-history.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starlight continues to travel across the cosmos long after its sources have burned out \u2014 which means that we can see stars that no longer exist. It also means that our astronomers can study stellar formation without looking at the stars at all, but by observing the gamma rays that shoot out from distant galaxies interacting with the starlight. Take a closer look: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2G33gsA&h=AT2mbPrj5N1YVp76caneadyE80cXxzlDIz3iaNyx-nYAWUAOb8S8V34i2OjRAJYEpvMA2OiDxfWp2SjqhObX3KsU0S6T3BXgigD0Gp_A69TlbBPdAN0UF57j53f92OuRkHCvipfzCFgWJGcqJQqoTfD1uhXK_cuhEieVcl1z-IExq-2PIES2mQ\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2G33gsA&amp;h=AT2mbPrj5N1YVp76caneadyE80cXxz\u2026q-2PIES2mQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2G33gsA&h=AT2mbPrj5N1YVp76caneadyE80cXxzlDIz3iaNyx-nYAWUAOb8S8V34i2OjRAJYEpvMA2OiDxfWp2SjqhObX3KsU0S6T3BXgigD0Gp_A69TlbBPdAN0UF57j53f92OuRkHCvipfzCFgWJGcqJQqoTfD1uhXK_cuhEieVcl1z-IExq-2PIES2mQ\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2G33gsA&h=AT2mbPrj5N1YVp76caneadyE80cXxz...q-2PIES2mQ<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starlight continues to travel across the cosmos long after its sources have burned out \u2014 which means that we can see stars that no longer exist. It also means that our astronomers can study stellar formation without looking at the stars at all, but by observing the gamma rays that shoot out from distant galaxies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85613","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}