Open AccessChandra Observatory enters third year of providing insights into X‐ray universe
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/01eo00256
Subject(s) - observatory , physics , hubble space telescope , astronomy , universe , astrophysics , space observatory , telescope , galaxy , infrared
Martin Weisskopf said he is not a “wavelength chauvinist.” But, as program scientist for NASA's Chandra X‐Ray Observatory—a project he has seen through to fruition over the past quarter of a century—Weisskopf could not help but react favorably to the fairly incredible discoveries being made with the help of this tool. Just as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Compton Gamma‐ray Observatory have dramatically opened up other wave lengths to science, Chandra is allowing a clearer understanding of the high‐energy aspects of the universe that can be observed with X‐ray‐detecting telescopes.