The Tardis Constellation

There are 21 novel constellations of stars inward the nighttime sky. These novel constellations accept been given names such equally the TARDIS, the Albert Einstein as well as the Black Widow Spider. But y'all volition take away a real powerful gamma-ray telescope to thought these novel constellations - or NASA's powerful novel interactive map.

Since the start of human history people accept stared upwardly at the nighttime sky as well as searched for patterns inward the stars. In these patterns nosotros imagine nosotros come across animals, mythical creatures as well as familiar objects such equally crabs, bulls, centaurs as well as scales. By naming recognizable configurations of stars for the patterns they resemble nosotros accept invented a classification organisation for the heavens.

We telephone phone each of these patterns of stars a constellation. The International Astronomical Union recognizes 88 constellations. The IAU has nonetheless to recognize NASA's 21 novel gamma-ray constellations. However y'all tin 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 inward the universe, since 2008. These gamma-ray emission emanate from such things equally pulsars, nova outbursts or supermassive dark holes. The pose out of gamma-ray sources that the telescope has identified then far is well-nigh equal to the pose out of vivid stars. Therefore NASA has decided to variety out these novel gamma-ray sources amongst a novel laid upwardly of unofficial classifications of constellations.

Check-out NASA's interactive map to thought the Starship Enterprise, Godzilla, Schrödinger’s Cat as well as all the other novel unofficial constellations.