Light from the Void: Twenty Years of Discovery with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

Belinda Wilkes, BSc 1978

A lavish coffee table book of spectacular X-ray and multi-wavelength images of celestial sources observed with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, in celebration of 20 years 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.

ISBN: 9781588346780, 9781588346698