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AXAF science working group meeting, 1982 November 16
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The Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility was a telescope using x-rays to see the “empty” space between stars and galaxies that is actually filled with superhot gas. The AXAF was proposed to produce sharp, magnified images in x-rays that complement those made by the Hubble Space Telescope in visible light. Renamed the Chandra X-ray Observatory CXO, the telescope was launched on the space shuttle Columbia in 1999. It is known as one of the Great Observatories. In the early...
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1982 November 16