Monday, October 19, 2020

NOBEL LAUREATE CHANDRASEKAR & HIS THEORY ON EVOLUTION OF STARS

Today we're commemorating the 110 years since the birth of Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, the 'original starman' awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory on the evolution of stars.

The star cluster image shown below is taken from NASA's Chandra Observatory, named after Chandrasekhar. The data from Chandra is shown in purple, alongside infrared (orange) and optical data (blue) from other telescopes.

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