This site is optimized for use with a Netscape browser using a monitor set to 640 x 480 resolution.


3 main pathways through the site can be followed:

What are Gamma-Rays ?

What is a Gamma-Ray telescope ?

What will GLAST help us to understand ?

Each Pathway feeds into the next via the first menu. Although it pathway branches, if a student pushes forward, they will arrive back at the first menu.


Questions for students can be accessed wherever you see a small animated icon on a page, like one of these:

To go to a menu for question pages, click here.

Questions pages are graphics free & can be easily printed.


A black box lab, illustrating the problems scientists have in visualizing objects without sight, sound, or touch can be found here.


Many pages have links to web sites maintained by NASA & other agencies. To go to a menu for outside links, click here.


The slideshows embedded in the site are also available in fast & normal speed version here, for easy access. Depending on your computer and presentation needs, you may want to access these. The multiwavelength galaxies are pretty good at high speeds.


A GLAST glossary can be accessed on page 27 & page 28.