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| NASA's GLAST Mission |
| Robert Naeye, Editor in Chief of Sky & Telescope Magazine |
| Thursday, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:00 PM |
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NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), recently renamed FERMI Gamma Ray Space Telescope, is a powerful space observatory that will open a wide window on the universe. Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of light, and the gamma-ray sky is spectacularly different from the one we perceive with our own eyes. With a huge leap in all key capabilities, GLAST data will enable scientists to answer persistent questions across a broad range of topics, including supermassive black-hole systems, pulsars, the origin of cosmic rays, and searches for signals of new physics.
The mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed by NASA in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S.
Speaker Bio
Robert Naeye is the editor in chief of Sky & Telescope, the world’s most respected popular astronomy magazine.
He was recently the Senior Science Writer in the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He previously worked as a senior editor of Sky & Telescope, and editor of Mercury magazine, which is published in San Francisco by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. From 1995 to 2000, Robert worked as an associate editor and then senior editor for Astronomy magazine. He worked on the editorial staff of Discover magazine from 1992 to 1995.
Robert is the author of two books: Through the Eyes of Hubble: The Birth, Life, and Violent Death of Stars (1997) and Signals from Space: The Chandra X-ray Observatory (2000). He contributed to the recent book Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination. He is the 2002 recipient of the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division’s David N. Schramm Award for Science Journalism and the Astronomical Association of Northern California’s 2002 Professional Astronomer of the Year Award.
Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. |
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