                      APOD: 2018 June 11 - At Last GLAST

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                                 2018 June 11
                                      [2]
                                At Last GLAST
      Image Credit: NASA [3] , DOE [4] , Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
                              Collaboration [5]

Explanation: Rising through a billowing cloud of smoke, a long time ago from a
planet very very close by, this Delta II rocket [6] left Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station's launch pad 17-B at 12:05 pm EDT on June 11, 2008. Snug in the
payload section was GLAST, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope. GLAST's
detector technology was developed for use in terrestrial particle accelerators
[7] . So from orbit, GLAST can detect gamma-rays from extreme environments
above the Earth and across the distant Universe, including supermassive black
holes at the centers of distant active galaxies [8] , and the sources of
powerful gamma-ray bursts [9] . Those formidable cosmic accelerators [10]
achieve energies not attainable in earthbound laboratories. Now known as the
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope [11] , on the 10 year anniversary of its
launch, let the Fermi Science Playoffs begin [12] .

                   Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space [13]

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