Gone With the Galactic Wind: 10 Years of Chandra
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 13:49
in Astronomy & Space
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 at last explain how galaxies lose mass and energy, says UMass astronomer Daniel Wang in PNAS this week.