December 11, 2007
Beyond UV and IR…
PlayHow are the four astronomers in the pictures below related?
Cracked by: teju, VikraM, Vivek, prasanth, bobo, Gammafunction, Dibyo, alephnull and Lord Jim
Answer:The four telescopes of NASA’s Great Observatories program are named after these chaps. Clockwise from top-left, they are: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Arthur Compton, Lyman Spitzer and Edwin Hubble
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December 11th, 2007 at 6:04 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1197396293 )
Subramanya Chandrashekar was the only one i could get
the connect may be that all of them have an asteroid named after them!
December 11th, 2007 at 8:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1197404427 )
Names of the 4 “Great Observatories” of NASA.. Chandra, Compton, Hubble, Spitzer.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:23 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1197408224 )
X-ray astronomy and X ray telescope.
December 11th, 2007 at 10:31 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1197412311 )
All give their names (at least parts of their names…) to the 4 ‘great observatories’ of NASA:
1. S Chandrasekhar- Chandra X-Ray obs.
2. Arthur Holly Compton- Compton gamma ray obs.
3. Edwin Hubble- Hubble space telescope
5. Lyman Spitzer- Spitzer space telescope….
December 12th, 2007 at 2:05 am, GMT +0000 ( 1197425115 )
Clock wise : Chandrashekhar, Arthur Compton, Edwin Hubble, Lyman Spitzer.
All have space telescopes named after them.
I had used Chandra and hubble in a quiz I had done so I knew their faces. The other two, I just went through a list of all space telescopes on wiki named after people.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1197425615 )
All of them are related to space-observatories (part of the Great observatories program)
Chandra X-ray observatory, compton gamma ray observatory, spitzer space telescope and hubble space telescope
December 12th, 2007 at 3:22 am, GMT +0000 ( 1197429724 )
S. Chandra, Spitzer, Compton and Hubble (in no particular order)
space telescopes/great observatories program
December 12th, 2007 at 4:00 am, GMT +0000 ( 1197432059 )
NASA’s four great observatories are named after these men.
1.S Chandrashekar- Chandra X ray observatory
2. Arthur Compton – Compton gamma ray observatory
3.Hubble -Hubble Space Telescope (for visible light)
4.L.Spitzer -infrared Telescope.
(L to R ,T to B)
December 12th, 2007 at 4:35 am, GMT +0000 ( 1197434108 )
Chandrashekhar, Compton, Hubble, Spitzer. The 4 ‘Great Observatories’ by NASA are named after these gentlemen.
December 12th, 2007 at 5:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1197436414 )
NASA space telescopes. Chandra, et al.
December 12th, 2007 at 6:08 am, GMT +0000 ( 1197439706 )
The Four Great Observatories are named after them
chandra,hubble,spitzer,Compton