March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... current generation of hard X-ray satellites - like NuSTAR, INTEGRAL, SWIFT, Chandra, RXTE, XMM-Newton - and NASA’s Fermi Large Area Telescope, making pioneering observations of the most powerful Galactic and extragalactic sources and elucidating...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... has called the “eerie silence”, the lack of alien communication thus far is a lonely business. Indeed, the Fermi Paradox haunts the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) as it wonders why, if extraterrestrial (ET) intelligence is probable...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... other life outside Earth. This low abiogenesis probability also gives an answer to the famous Fermi paradox. In 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi asked why, if life can easily emerge around many stars in the galaxy, we do not...
03 May 2017
Milky Way dark matter still as elusive as ever
...Now however, using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a team of scientists, including researchers ... Mauro from KIPAC and who led the analysis for the Fermi LAT Collaboration. "But we used one of their physical ...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... the potential magnetic structures in the halo of Messier 82, in that researchers had to: update the classic Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi (DCF) approximation to account for the galactic superwind and determine the average magnetic field strength in the...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... an asteroid sample to Earth in 2023. In 2020, an international team of researchers using data from Arecibo Observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope announced in the journal Nature Astronomy the discovery of what they called a “gamma-ray heartbeat...
