NASA | GLASTcast | Episode 3: Swift and GLAST

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NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S.

What's the difference between the Swift and GLAST satellites? Both missions look at gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), but in different ways. Swift can rapidly and precisely determine the locations of GRBs and observe their afterglows at X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical wavelengths. GLAST will provide exquisite observations of the burst over the gamma ray spectrum, giving scientists their first complete view of the total energy released in these extraordinary events. Beyond GRB science, GLAST is a multipurpose observatory that will study a broad range of cosmic phenomena. Swift is also a multipurpose observatory, but was built primarily to study GRBs.

Interviews with (in order of appearance):

David Thompson - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard
Charles "Chip" Meegan -- GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Principal Investigator, NASA Marshall
Lynn Cominsky -- GLAST Astrophysicist and Education and Public Outreach Lead, Sonoma State University
Neil Gehrels - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard
Steve Ritz - GLAST Project Scientist, NASA Goddard
Alan Marscher -- Professor of Astronomy, Boston University

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[Sk8within]

Universe is frightening. And Infinite.

[jaspertodd]

I love this kinda stuff.I just started getting into telescopes.If you never looked threw a telescope your missing out.There is soooo much stuff to see up there.

[vlatin1]

So apparently, astronomers will use GLAST to study how black holes accelerate jets of gas outward at high speeds. Wait a minute, when mathematicians invented these infinitely dense point-masses, we were told that nothing could escape a black hole once it has crossed the event horizon. So how are these magical jets accelerating out of a black hole? I thought gravity was an attractive force. Hey NASA, you know what, we live in an Electric Universe, not a gravitational universe.

[Ulrna]

It governs and expands reality.

[ancybazner]

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[comedytracker]

How do I create a national space association in australia?

[Astronomer21]

Placed in my favorites

[Highdefbmx]

Norway got tons of these satellites already, old news

[oriontiger68]

yeah i just got a newtonian reflection telescope. looked at the moon god damn its amazing. u can see so many craters and were the inpacked shot out trails of stuff from the crater. i saw a meteor fly in front of the moon 3 times. it was bad ass. and evertime i saw it it was moving faster and faster. i just looked at jupiter could see the bands and i saw jupiters four moons io, europa, ganamayde, and callisto. and when i looked at jupiter again the moons postion around jupiter changed

[sdavidson15]

you went on something from NASA what was you expecting little kid