There are 21 novel constellations of stars inwards the nighttime sky. These novel constellations accept been given names such every mo the TARDIS, the Albert Einstein too the Black Widow Spider. But you lot volition remove a really powerful gamma-ray telescope to sentiment these novel constellations - or NASA's powerful novel interactive map.
Since the kickoff of human history people accept stared upwardly at the nighttime sky too searched for patterns inwards the stars. In these patterns nosotros imagine nosotros run into animals, mythical creatures too familiar objects such every mo crabs, bulls, centaurs too scales. By naming recognizable configurations of stars for the patterns they resemble nosotros accept invented a classification organisation for the heavens.
We telephone telephone each of these patterns of stars a constellation. The International Astronomical Union recognizes 88 constellations. The IAU has withal to recognize NASA's 21 novel gamma-ray constellations. However you lot tin plough over notice approximate the novel constellations for yourself on NASA's interactive map of Fermi's Gamma-ray Constellations.
Fermi’s Large Area Telescope has been searching the universe for gamma rays, the highest-energy lite inwards the universe, since 2008. These gamma-ray emission emanate from such things every mo pulsars, nova outbursts or supermassive dark holes. The pose out of gamma-ray sources that the telescope has identified too thence far is virtually equal to the pose out of brilliant stars. Therefore NASA has decided to kind out these novel gamma-ray sources amongst a novel develop of unofficial classifications of constellations.
Check-out NASA's interactive map to sentiment the Starship Enterprise, Godzilla, Schrödinger’s Cat too all the other novel unofficial constellations.
