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What type of light did the Chandra telescope see?
The Chandra telescope was built to observe X-rays.
Is the Chandra a space or land based telescope?
It is a space based XRAY telescope
What year was the Chandra telescope built?
1977
What has the Chandra Telescope Discovered?
The Chandra Telescope has discovered many different things. But the most popular discoveries are these. The Crab Nebula, The Orion Nebula, and Eta Carinea.
What is the diameter of the chandra telescope?
It is 33 METERS in diameter
What wavelength does the Chandra telescope use to examine outer space?
The Chandra Telescope uses x-rays to examine outer space.
What are NASA's the best observatories?
There are four: Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Is Hubble the only telescope orbiting earth?
No, there's a great number of highly specialized telescopes in orbit. The most famous ones apart from Hubble are the Spitzer Space Telescope (for infrared) and the Chandra (for X-rays).
What space telescope is used to study xrays?
There's a great number of space-based X-ray telescopes. The most famous ones are Chandra, NuSTAR, Swift, XMM-Newton.
Where is the Chandra telescope located?
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is located in space, in Earth's orbit. It was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999 and has been observing the universe in high-energy X-rays ever since.
What is the name of the 1999 Chandra satellite Space Shuttle?
The Chandra X-Ray telescope was launched from Space Shuttle Columbia, during mission STS-93, between July 23-27, 1999. It also marked the first Shuttle mission led by a female commander, Astronaut Eileen Collins.
How much did Chandra telescope cost?
Chandra X-Ray Observatory Cost: Development ~ $1.65 billion Launch Costs ~ $350 million Operations and Data Analysis (years 1-5) ~ $0.75 billion Operations and Data Analysis (years 6-10) ~ $245 million
