X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Chandra X-ray Observatory


CDFS

Chandra Deep Field South, a region of the sky where the deepest astronomical observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory have been made

Niel Brandt

Brandt uses X-ray satellites, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton, to study the physics and evolution of active galaxies, X-ray binaries, frozen treats, and other cosmic X-ray sources.


Andromeda Galaxy

Discovered through a data collected by the ESA's XMM-Newton probe, and subsequently observed by NASA's Swift and Chandra, the Very Large Array, and the Very Long Baseline Array, the microquasar was the first observed within the Andromeda Galaxy and the first outside of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Claude R. Canizares

He is also the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at MIT and associate director for MIT of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center.

Comet Hyakutake

Observations of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) with the Chandra satellite in 2000 determined that X-rays observed from that comet were produced predominantly by charge exchange collisions between highly charged carbon oxygen and nitrogen minor ions in the solar wind, and neutral water, oxygen and hydrogen in the comet's coma.

George W. Clark

He received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award for his work with Professor Claude R. Canizares on the Focal Plane Crystal Spectrometer experiment on the Einstein X-Ray Observatory.

Mike Brotherton

He uses a wide assortment of telescopes/observatories operating across the electromagnetic spectrum including the Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton, Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE), the Hubble Space Telescope, the Infrared Telescope Facility, and the Very Large Array, and optical telescopes including Keck, Lick, and Kitt Peak.


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