Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory - Couverture rigide

Arcand, Kimberly K.; Tremblay, Grant; Watzke, Megan; Wilkes, Belinda J.; Weisskopf, Martin C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1588346692 ISBN 13 : 9781588346698

Editeur : Smithsonian Books, 2019

Synopsis

A lavish coffee-table book featuring spectacular images from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-Ray telescope ever built

Take 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, then moving into the solar system, through the nearby universe, and finally to the most distant galaxies Chandra has observed, the book brings readers on a far-out visual voyage.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smithsonian Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1588346692
• ISBN 13: 9781588346698
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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