Kimberly K. Arcand

Light from the Void

Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

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A lavish coffee-table book featuring spectacular images from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-Ray telescope ever builtTake a journey through the cosmos with Light from the Void, a stunning collection of photographs from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory's two decades of operation. The book showcases rarely-seen celestial phenomena such as black holes, planetary nebulae, galaxy clusters, gravitational waves, stellar birth and death, and more. Accompanying these images of incredible natural phenomena are captions explaining how they occur. The images start close to home and move outward: beginning with images of the Chandra launch… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Tremblay, Grant / Watzke, Megan / Wilkes, Belinda J. / Weisskopf, Martin C.

ISBN: 978-1-58834-669-8
EAN: 9781588346698
Produktnummer: 29843551
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 204 S.
Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.

Über den Autor

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard College Observatory, studies basic physical processes that determine the nature and evolution of the universe. Together they operate the Chandra X-Ray Observatory for NASA. Foreword writers BELINDA WILKES is Director of the Chandra X-Ray Center, and MARTIN WEISSKOPF is the Chandra Project Scientist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.