Ballad of a Politician

Regina Spektor.

FAST

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) being constructed in China looks truly remarkable.

Young Americans

Bowie.

Gone with the Limb

Two preprints cast doubt on the reality of the 130-GeV gamma-ray excess found by Fermi. Most likely the signature is connected to Earth limb photons (arXiv:1209.4548)  and (arXiv:1209.4562)

Freedom and Its Owner

Kings of Convenience.

Machine Learning from Fermi

We have just posted a recently accepted article discussing the application of machine-learning algorithms to Fermi AGN (arXiv:1209.4359).

z=9.6

Courtesy of gravitational lensing.

It's Raining

Irma Thomas.

Horizons

LTJ Bukem.

Beauty

Staring at a beautiful Fermi image.

Waveforms

Django Django.

Just the Way you Are

Listening to this played by a full marching band in the streets of old Delft. Eerie.

Pulsars and PWNe with CTA

We have posted a new paper on astro-ph (arXiv:1209.0357).