Friday, December 21, 2007

Top 10 Chandra Pictures: Four Years of X-ray Imaging

X-rays do not penetrate Earth's atmosphere, so it has only been since 1962 that astronomers have had a glimpse of this form of radiation coming from beyond our solar system.While not the only space-based X-ray observatory, Chandra is the finest machine of its class.

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