Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Mon Jul 23 2018 10:18:07 APOD: 2018 July 23 - Fermi Science Finals Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 July 23 [2] Fermi Science Finals Illustration Credit: NASA [3] , DOE [4] , International Fermi LAT Collaboration [5] , Jay Friedlander (Goddard Space Flight Center [6] ) Explanation: The Fermi Science Playoffs [7] celebrate 10 years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's exploration of the high-energy universe [8] . Surviving all early rounds of voting, these two finalists in the competion square off at last. Digital illustrations from a list of 16 of Fermi's top scientific discoveries, they represent the competition's [9] two top seeds, defeating 12th seed New Clues to Dark Matter [10] and 14th seed Starquakes in Magnetar Storm [11] in the semifinal round. On the left are unprecedented, unpredicted, 25,000 light-year tall Gamma-ray Bubbles [12] above and below the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. On the right, violently merging Neutron Stars Collide [13] to create the first gamma-ray detected gravitational wave event. Pick one now and cast your vote here [14] to crown the most popular science result from Fermi's first decade. Tomorrow's picture: mostly cloudy [15] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [16] | Archive [17] | Submissions [18] | Index [19] | Search [20] | Calendar [21] | RSS [22] | Education [23] | About APOD [24] | Discuss [25] | > [26] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [27] (MTU [28] ) & Jerry Bonnell [29] (UMCP [30] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [31] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [32] A service of: ASD [33] at NASA [34] / GSFC [35] & Michigan Tech. U. [36] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1807/FermiFinals.jpg [3] http://www.nasa.gov/ [4] http://www.energy.gov/ [5] http://www-glast.stanford.edu [6] http://www.nasa.gov/goddard/ [7] ap180608.html [8] https://www.facebook.com/nasafermi [9] https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/fermi10/fridays/07202018.html [10] https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/fermi10/brackets/image12.html [11] https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/fermi10/brackets/image14.html [12] https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/fermi10/brackets/image01.html [13] https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/fermi10/brackets/image02.html [14] https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/fermi10/brackets/ [15] ap180724.html [16] ap180722.html [17] archivepix.html [18] lib/apsubmit2015.html [19] lib/aptree.html [20] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [21] calendar/allyears.html [22] /apod.rss [23] lib/edlinks.html [24] lib/about_apod.html [25] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=180723 [26] ap180724.html [27] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [28] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [29] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [30] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [31] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [32] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [33] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [34] https://www.nasa.gov/ [35] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [36] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .