Chandra X-ray Observatory
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory, previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility, is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-93 by NASA on Jul
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Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-93 launches in 1999
Crew of STS-93 with a scale model
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure
Chandra X-ray Observatory
…Observatory (1991–2000), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (2003–2020). The telescope is named after the Nobel Prize-winning Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Its mission is similar to that of ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft, also launched in 1999 but the two telescopes have different design foci, as Chandra has…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Chandrasekhar in 1934
![S. Chandrasekhar with his brothers and sisters in Madras [Chennai], India. From left to right seated are: Bala, Savitri, Chandra, Sarada, Rajam; stand](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/S._Chandrasekhar_with_family.jpg/500px-S._Chandrasekhar_with_family.jpg)
S. Chandrasekhar with his brothers and sisters in Madras [Chennai], India. From left to right seated are: Bala, Savitri, Chandra, Sarada, Rajam; standing: Vidya, Balakrishnan, Vishwam, Ramanathan, Sundari.