Further Reading

This section contains references (links and books) with more information about the Chandra X-ray Observatory, space science or science education.

Links

• Other Chandra-related sites
  
  • High Resolution Camera (HRC) Homepage
  • Low Energy Transmission Grating (LETG) at MPE Garching
  • LETG at Space Research Organization the Netherlands
  • Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
  • MIT AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) Homepage
  • MIT CSR - High Energy Transmission Grating Project
  • STS-93 Mission Page
  • Northrop Grumman Space Technology
• NASA & Space Science sites
  • Constellation-X
  • HEASARC
  • Human Spaceflight Web
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • NASA Headquarters
  • NASA Science Mission Directorate
  • GSFC's Exploration of the Universe Division
  • Space Telescope Science Institute
  • Spitzer Space Telescope
• Other Smithsonian sites
  • CfA Public Affairs
  • High Energy Astrophysics Division
  • Smithsonian Institution
• Science Education sites
  • Chandra Educational Resources - a section just for education links

Books

Black Holes and Gravity

• M. Begelman & M. Rees, Gravity's Fatal Attraction, Scientific American Library, 1996.
• K. Thorne, Black Holes and Time Warps, W.W. Norton, 1994.

Cosmology: The Origin and Evolution of the Universe

• S. Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell, Bantam, 2001
• T. Ferris, The Whole Shebang, Touchstone Books, 1998
• R. Kirshner, Our Extravagant Universe, Princeton U. Press, 2002
• J. Magueijo, Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation, Perseus, 2003
• M. Rees, Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others, Helix Books, 1998.
• M. Rees, Just Six Numbers (2000, Basic Books, New York)
• J. Silk, A Short History of the Universe, W.H. Freeman, 1994.

Miscellaneous Topics

• J. Gott, Time Travel in Einstein's Universe (2001, Houghton-Mifflin, New York).
• J. Pasachoff, A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.

X-ray Astronomy

• P. Charles & F. Seward, Exploring the X-ray Universe, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995.
• E. Schlegel, The Restless Universe: Understanding X-Ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton, Oxford U. Press, 2002
• W. Tucker & K. Tucker, Revealing the Universe: The Making of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Harvard U. Press, 2001.
• W. Tucker & R. Giacconi, The X-ray Universe, Harvard U. Press, 1985.
• K. Weaver, The Violent Universe: Joyrides Through the X-ray Cosmos, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

• "Empire of the Stars;" by Arthur I. Miller; Houghton Mifflin and Co, 2005
• "CHANDRA, a Biography of S. Chandrasekhar;" by Kameshwar C. Wali; The University of Chicago Press, 1991.
• "S. CHANDRASEKHAR, The Man Behind the Legend;" Editor, Kameshwar C. Wali; Imperial College Press, 1997.