Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Observatory by Arcand, Kimberly K.

Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Observatory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781588346698)

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Format: Hardcover
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Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Observatory by Arcand, Kimberly K.

Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Observatory

$45.00
Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Observatory by Arcand, Kimberly K.

Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Observatory

$45.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 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.

Author: Kimberly Arcand, Grant Tremblay, Megan Watzke
ISBN-10: 1588346692
ISBN-13: 9781588346698
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2019
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.09lbs
Size: 10.10h x 10.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2020
By Kimberly Arcand
By Kimberly Arcand
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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.

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