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Fermi LAT Collaboration

Fermi rolls and rocks in its orbit about Earth. This image, made of eight frames moving clockwise over 51 months while viewing the same crushed star core, traces the spacecraft’s complex motion

This map combines Fermi’s all-sky gamma ray vision and the brightest 186 gamma-ray bursts it has seen (green dots).

Early in its mission, Fermi discovered two enormous bubbles of gamma rays (purple) emanating from the center of our galaxy (seen as a blue plane).

Galaxy Centaurus A hosts an enormous black hole dining on nearby matter. During this messy and lengthy meal, the turmoil launches jets of fast-moving material. Those jets emit both radio waves, which are the lowest-energy type of light and appear yellow-orange here, and gamma rays, the highest-energy radiation and appear purple here.