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About Me

Well, everything's just cool, just fine. I finally joined my sister Swift in space. Been a long time waiting too, like since '99...last century! Now that I am up and working, the next major thing for me... wait for it, wait it.... is to get a new name! I wonder what it'll be. Oh, and if you want t-shirts, mugs, throw pillows, wall clocks and more with me or my objects of interest displayed upon them, check out my shwag here

The following video was created by the GLAST French team.

Watch GLASTcast, my vlog here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/multimedia/index.htm l

A blog by Dr. Steve Ritz, GLAST Project Scientist and Astrophysicist: http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/GLAST


Where am I now? Wouldn't you like to know? ;) But seriously, here I am: http://www.n2yo.com/?s=33053 .

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Active galaxies are the best! I so can't wait to meet them. They're so cool, they're sick, they just keep shooting out their jets, waaaay out into space. Oh, and Gamma-Ray bursts. They're cool, but they're so ADD, here then gone, so it's tough to really get to know them.

My Blog

NASA's Fermi Explores High-energy "Space Invaders"

Since its launch last June, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years away. At ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 May 2009 14:56:00 GMT

Fermi participates in 100 Hours of Astronomy

Find out more here: http://www.100hoursofastronomy.org/component/content/article /169
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:23:00 GMT

NASA's Fermi Mission, Namibia's HESS Telescopes Explore a Blazar

An international team of astrophysicists using telescopes on the ground and in space have uncovered surprising changes in radiation emitted by an active galaxy. The picture that emerges from these fir...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:26:00 GMT

Fermi Telescope Sees Most Extreme Gamma-ray Blast Yet

"The first gamma-ray burst to be seen in high-resolution from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is one for the record books. The blast had the greatest total energy, the fastest motions and the h...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:27:00 GMT

Fermi Telescope Unveils a Dozen New Pulsars

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are transforming our understanding of how these stell...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:30:00 GMT

The satellite formerly known as GLAST

Remember the blog post I made a few months back? The one about how I was inviting my beautiful, adoring fans, i.e. YA'LL, to submit a cool new name for me post-launch lest scientists name me something...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:23:00 GMT

NASA’s GLAST Burst Monitor Team Hard at Work Fine Tuning Instrument and Operations

While only on orbit for 40 days and still in the process of a two-month checkout, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) has already detected 12 powerful gamma-ray bursts, an encouraging harb...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:42:00 GMT

GLAST Safely in Orbit, Getting Check-ups

"Less than a week after launch, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is safely up-and-running well in orbit approximately 350 miles (565 kilometers) above Earth's surface."Read mor...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:40:00 GMT

New GLAST Blog

A new blog by Dr. Steve Ritz, GLAST Project Scientist and Astrophysicist: http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/GLAST
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:52:00 GMT

NASA’S GLAST LAUNCH SUCCESSFUL

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. -- NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 12:...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:43:00 GMT