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Astronomy Cast Episode 169 from Monday, December 21st, 2009.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of University Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gantt professor at Southern Illinois University Airbus Film.

Hello Pamela.

Hey Fraser, how's it going?

Good, now we need to do a bit of a disclaimer with today's show which I think is like a first for us.

It is, but that's okay.

Yeah, so the Fermi mission previously known as Glast was a sponsor of University Day, and by sponsor, I mean they covered our costs to do a bunch of question shows with kids, and they bought us some cool audio equipment, and they paid for the postage for us to send the recorders back and forth from schools, and they also helped us, I think, get some material published all relating to that.

So, so now you know we're totally, you know, in cahoots with the Glast mission, raking in the thousands, so yeah, no, that was, that was great.

So thanks to them, and this free publicity for them has, has no relation, it would have happened whether or not they had sponsored our show.

Is that, is that good?

I think that covers it, and there are friends.

I mean, we like Len, we like all of the people over at Fermi, which used to be called Glast.

Yeah, yeah, so there are Glast friends, so that's it.

Yeah, there's our big disclaimer. We're friendly with them.

Okay.

Alright, so last week we talked about Fermi, the man, and now we're going to talk about Fermi, the Space Telescope.

That's right, and Rico Fermi, it's such an impact in the astronomy and physics community that he got a Space Telescope named after him.

Let's take a look at what this mission will do, and it's discovery so far.

Alright, so the fairy mission previously known as Glast, what's the history?

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