| Keen-sighted
X-ray telescope debuts
Fiery, X-ray–spewing
gas hurtles outward from a suspected supernova in an image demonstrating
the exceptionally keen vision of the newly launched Chandra X-Ray
Observatory.
Further Readings:
Cowen, R. 1998. Space 1998. Science News
153(Jan. 3):8.
______. 1997. Galactic and stellar black holes
get real. Science News 151(Jan. 18):38.
For more about
Chandra on the Web, see http://chandra.nasa.gov
or http://chandra.harvard.edu/.
Sources:
Richard F.
Mushotzky
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Mailstop Code 662.0
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Harvey D.
Tananbaum
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Chandra X-Ray Center
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 10, September 4, 1999, p. 148. Copyright ©
1999, Science Service. |