NASA's Fermi Mission Nets 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars ... and Counting
A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, while another 34 suspects await confirmation. This is 27 times the number known before the mission launched in 2008. "Pulsars touch on a wide range of astrophysics research, from cosmic rays and stellar evolution to the se