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| Audio slideshow: Chandra's first decade | Audio slideshow: Chandra's first decade |
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| Deployed by the space shuttle on 23 July 1999, the Chandra telescope is Nasa's flagship mission exploring the realms of X-ray astronomy. | Deployed by the space shuttle on 23 July 1999, the Chandra telescope is Nasa's flagship mission exploring the realms of X-ray astronomy. |
| The observatory, which is named after the Indian-American astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, orbits the Earth once every 64 hours. | The observatory, which is named after the Indian-American astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, orbits the Earth once every 64 hours. |
| Here, Darren Baskill, an X-ray astronomer at the University of Sussex, explains Chandra's importance, and looks at some of the colourful images it has produced in the past 10 years. | Here, Darren Baskill, an X-ray astronomer at the University of Sussex, explains Chandra's importance, and looks at some of the colourful images it has produced in the past 10 years. |
| Unless stated otherwise, images courtesy Nasa/CXC/SAO. Music courtesy KPM Music.Slideshow production by Paul Kerley. Publication date 23 July 2009. | Unless stated otherwise, images courtesy Nasa/CXC/SAO. Music courtesy KPM Music.Slideshow production by Paul Kerley. Publication date 23 July 2009. |
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