Light from the Void
| Author | : Kimberly K. Arcand |
| Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2019-10-22 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781588346780 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1588346781 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (781 Downloads) |
Download or read book Light from the Void written by Kimberly K. Arcand and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.