Gone With the Galactic Wind: 10 Years of Chandra X-ray Observations Reveal Galaxy Secrets
(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA launched its Chandra X-ray observing telescope into orbit in 1999, astronomers didn`t know much about the galactic winds made of wispy, multi-million-degree gas clouds that stream out from normal galaxies like our own, because they are `diffuse, gentle and unspectacular` compared to far more dramatic emanations of starbursts, recalls astronomer Q. Daniel Wang of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Gone With the Galactic Wind: 10 Years of Chandra X-ray Observations Reveal Galaxy Secrets
(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA launched its Chandra X-ray observing telescope into orbit in 1999, astronomers didn`t know much about the galactic winds made of wispy, multi-million-degree gas clouds ...
Mon 8 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
Gone With the Galactic Wind: 10 Years of Chandra
The 10th anniversary of NASA's Chandra X-ray observing telescope hails new knowledge about multi-million-degree gas clouds, or galactic wind, streaming out from galaxies like ours. Chandra data ...
Wed 10 Mar 10 from Newswise
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