Williamsburg Regional Library

Chandra's cosmos, dark matter, black holes, and other wonders revealed by NASA's premier X-ray observatory, Wallace H. Tucker

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index

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Chandra's cosmos

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Wallace H. Tucker

dark matter, black holes, and other wonders revealed by NASA's premier X-ray observatory

On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra science spokesperson Wallace H. Tucker uses a series of short, connected stories to describe the telescope's exploration of the hot, high-energy face of the universe. The book is organized in three parts: "The Big," covering the cosmic web, dark energy, dark matter, and massive clusters of galaxies; "The Bad," exploring neutron stars, stellar black holes, and supermassive black holes; and "The Beautiful," discussing stars, exoplanets, and life

Cool stories from the hot universe -- The big. Galaxy clusters ; The evidence for dark matter ; Cold dark matter ; Dark matter going bananas ; The wonderful-- and fearful-- dark side ; What is dark energy? ; The cosmic web -- The bad. Taking pleasure in the dimness of stars ; Cygnus X-1, microquasars, and the galactic jet set ; Downtown Milky Way ; The secret in the middle ; Ducks unlimited ; The origin and growth of supermassive black holes ; Green black holes ; Black hole feedback -- The beautiful. Going not gentle into that good night ; Core collapse ; The Crab and other pulsar wind nebulas ; A thin cosmic rain : particles from outer space ; Elemental change ; Cosmic renewal

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