NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae

An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova.

The researchers say it likely received its power-up from a supermagnetized neutron star born in the stellar collapse that triggered the explosion.

The Fermi mission is part of NASA’s fleet of observatories monitoring the changing […]