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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is an orbiting telescope that observes the universe in the high-energy gamma-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Fermi studies black holes, subatomic particles, gamma-ray bursts, neutron stars, cosmic rays and supernova remnants, the cosmic gamma-ray background, gamma-ray events within the solar system, the birth and early evolution of the Universe, and other phenomena. GLAST was launched aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II 7920-H expendable launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 17B (SLC-17B) at 12:05 p.m. EST (16:05 GMT) on June 11, 2008. Photos courtesy: Carleton Bailie
