Light from the Void

Light from the Void Twenty Years of Discovery With NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781588346698
Publisher: Smithsonian
Imprint: Smithsonian Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 522.6863
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 204
Weight: 1386g
Height: 261mm
Width: 261mm
Spine width: 23mm