Chandra's Cosmos: Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Other by Wallace H. Tucker

By Wallace H. Tucker

On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the main strong X-ray telescope ever outfitted, used to be introduced aboard the distance go back and forth Columbia. when you consider that then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that's mostly hidden from telescopes delicate basically to obvious gentle. In Chandra's Cosmos, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra technological know-how spokesperson Wallace H. Tucker makes use of a chain of brief, hooked up tales to explain the telescope's exploration of the new, high-energy face of the universe. The ebook is equipped in 3 components: "The Big," masking the cosmic net, darkish strength, darkish topic, and large clusters of galaxies; "The Bad," exploring neutron stars, stellar black holes, and supermassive black holes; and "The Beautiful," discussing stars, exoplanets, and life.

Chandra has imaged the astonishing, sparkling continues to be of exploded stars and brought spectra displaying the dispersal in their parts. Chandra has saw the zone round the supermassive black gap within the heart of our Milky means and traced the separation of darkish subject from general subject within the collision of galaxies, contributing to either darkish subject and darkish strength reports. Tucker explores the consequences of those observations in an unique, informative narrative geared toward house buffs and normal readers alike.

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