NASA Slashes Worth range for Chandra, Its Splendid X-ray Observatory
NASA Space Technology NASA Space Technology Astronomers Strive in opposition to to Keep X-ray Telescope as NASA Dishes Out Worth range CutsThe Chandra X-ray Observatory faces a premature discontinuance below fresh funding cuts proposed by NASA—and astronomers aren’t contentedBy Jonathan O'CallaghanAn illustration of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in a excessive orbit around Earth. Launched in 1999, Chandra stays a main tool for x-ray astronomy—however funds cuts can also rapidly draw its mission to a shut. Credit ranking: James Vaughan/Science Photo Library/Getty PhotosYet every other of NASA’s “Big Observatories” is facing its discontinuance. Between 1990 and 2003 the living company launched four honest machines into Earth orbit to peep the universe with assorted eyes, giving us a profoundly unmatched gape of phenomena and vistas at some point of the cosmos. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory did...