Chandra
- The Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA's premier X-ray Observatory
For more information about the Chandra X-ray Observatory see "About Chandra" page on the Chandra Science WWW site, or the Chandra Public WWW Site.
Possible Reference:
Weisskopf M.C., O'Dell S.L. & van Speybroeck L.P., 1996, SPIE, 2805, 2. - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American Nobel laureate in physics. Widely known as "Chandra". One of the foremost astrophysicists of the twentieth century. Discoverer of the Chandrasekhar limit to the mass of a white dwarf (and much else besides).
For more information about Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar see "The Man Behind the Name."
- "Moon" or "luminous" in Sanskrit (the full name "Chandrasekhara" in Sanskrit is "Shiva" , one of the Hindu trinity. "Subrahmanya" is Shiva's son.)
