Heine and Gueyfier showcase the determined efforts of a Nepali girl named Chandra and her older sister to save enough money to purchase a solar lamp for their family, in hopes of helping their baby ...
Chandra (Sanskrit: चन्द्र, romanized: Chandra, lit. 'shining' or 'moon'), also known as Soma (Sanskrit: सोम), is the Hindu god of the Moon, and is associated with the night, plants and vegetation.
Chandra X-ray Observatory The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the world's most powerful X-ray telescope. It has eight-times greater resolution and is able to detect sources more than 20-times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope.
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory operates the Chandra X-ray Observatory on behalf of NASA. Chandra has been at the forefront of developing, as well as 3D printing, these 3D models both for scientific use and for the public. This suite of Chandra 3D models for you to explore features stars at various stages of the stellar life cycle.
25 Years of Chandra Far exceeding its original five-year design life, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, designed and built by Northrop Grumman, is the most powerful X-ray telescope ever launched. Alongside the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, Chandra is one of NASA’s four Great Observatories.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-93 by NASA on . Chandra is sensitive to X-ray sources 100 times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope, enabled by the high angular resolution of its mirrors. Since the Earth's ...