References & Sources

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.