
Light from the Void
Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Smithsonian Books (Publisher)
Published on 22. October 2019
Book
Hardback
204 pages
978-1-58834-669-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 265 mm
Width: 261 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1375 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58834-669-8 (9781588346698)
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Kimberly K. Arcand | Grant Tremblay | Megan Watzke
Light from the Void
Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
E-Book
10/2019
1st Edition
Smithsonian Books
€44.49
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Persons
Kimberly Arcand, Grant Tremblay, Megan Watzke, Martin C. Weisskopf, and Belinda J. Wilkes
Author
Foreword
Belinda J. Wilkes
Martin C. Weisskoph