NASA's Fermi Mission Shows How Luck Favors the Prepared

  • Released Thursday, November 8, 2018
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Explore how more than a century of scientific progress with gravitational waves, gamma rays and neutrinos has helped bring about the age of multimessenger astronomy.

Music: "Family Tree," "The Archives" and "Beyond Truth," all from Killer Tracks.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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In 2017, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope played a pivotal role in two important breakthroughs occurring just five weeks apart. But what might seem like extraordinary good luck is really the product of research, analysis, preparation and development extending back more than a century. This video timeline explores the historical progress of research into three cosmic messengers -- gravitational waves, gamma rays and neutrinos -- that Fermi helped bring together.

For some of the video content used in this timeline, see this page.

Complete timeline as single image

Complete timeline as single image

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See https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/multimessenger-links-to-nasa-s-fermi-mission-show-how-luck-favors-the-prepared

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