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Revealing the universe : the making of the Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Title
- Revealing the universe : the making of the Chandra X-ray Observatory / Wallace Tucker and Karen Tucker.
- Author
- Tucker, Wallace H.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Tucker, Karen.
- Description
- vi, 295 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "When the first X-ray detectors revealed many places in the universe that are too hot to be seen by optical and radio telescopes, pioneering X-ray astronomers realized they were onto something big. They knew that a large X-ray observatory must be created if they were ever to understand such astonishing phenomena as neutron stars, supernovas, black holes, and dark matter. What they could not know was how monumental in time, money, and effort this undertaking would be. Revealing the Universe tells the story of the Chandra X-ray Observatory."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-270) and index.
- Contents
- Dream of a large x-ray observatory -- New concept and a new start -- Mirror challenge -- Restructuring -- Building an observatory -- Looking over Galileo's shoulder.
- ISBN
- 0674004973
- 9780674004979
- LCCN
- 00053862
- OCLC
- ocm45201964
- 45201964
- SCSB-1148637
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library