Tag Archive for 'Dipole'

An artist’s impression of the Solar System. Image credit: NASA / JPL.

Our Solar System is Moving More Than Three Times Faster than Expected

Nov 17, 2025 by News Staff

To determine the motion of the Solar System, Bielefeld University astrophysicist Lukas Böhme and his colleagues analyzed the distribution of radio galaxies. An...

This artist’s concept shows the entire sky in gamma rays with magenta circles illustrating the uncertainty in the direction from which more high-energy gamma rays than average seem to be arriving. In this view, the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy runs across the middle of the map. The circles enclose regions with a 68% (inner) and a 95% chance of containing the origin of these gamma rays. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Fermi Spots Strange Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Feature

Jan 17, 2024 by News Staff

Intriguingly, the gamma-ray signal detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is found in a similar direction and with a nearly identical magnitude...