CHANDRA VS. CHANDRA

Centaurus A
Centaurus A

NASA’s premier X-ray observatory was named the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Indian-American Nobel laureate, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. He was widely regarded as one of the foremost astrophysicists of the twentieth century. Early in his career he demonstrated that there is an upper limit (now called the Chandrasekhar limit) to the mass of…