Results for "Large Orbiting X-Ray Telescope"
New Chandra X-Ray Images on the Flickr Commons
- Date: October 27, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Multiple Mirror Telescope Construction
- Date: 1977
- Creator: Cornell, James
- Creator: Cornell, James
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009542, Multiple-Mirror Telescope Videohistory Collection, 1989
- Date: 1989
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007416, Giacconi, Riccardo, Riccardo Giacconi Papers, 1955- 2002
- Date: 1955 1955-2002 1955- 2002
- Creator: Giacconi, Riccardo
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
MMT (Multiple Mirror Telescope) Observatory on Mt. Hopkins, Arizona
- Date: 1977
- Creator: Williams, J. T
Large Surface Light Collector at Mt. Hopkins Observatory
- Date: 1968 October 23, 1968
- Creator: Unknown
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 95-122, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Department of Space History, Space Telescope History Project Records, circa 1968-1987
- Date: 1968 1968-1987 circa 1968-1987
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Construction of MMT (Multiple Mirror Telescope) Observatory on Mt. Hopkins, Arizona
- Date: 1977 September 1977
- Creator: Cornell, James C. Jr
- Blog Post
Seeing the Invisible (Part 2)
- Date: June 1, 2009
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
Seeing the Invisible
- Date: May 11, 2009
- Description: Throughout May and June, we are inviting people throughout the Smithsonian to talk about photography and astronomy. This is the first installment from Megan Watzke, Press Officer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Most people think of a telescope as something in a backyard or the dome at the local planetarium. And it’s true that many telescopes are designed to
- Blog Post
Stellar Evolution: A Journey with Chandra
- Date: April 25, 2012
- Description: The Chandra X-ray Observatory explains the origins of recently added image of stellar evolution to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons stream.
- Blog Post
New Image of Supernova
- Date: April 8, 2009
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="385" caption="A Young Pulsar Shows its Hand, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory"][/caption] On Friday, April 3, the Chandra X-ray Observatory released a new image (with 10 times more data) of supernova B1509 which is now available on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons photostream. Chandra orbits the earth every 2.5 days capturing images
