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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Beyond UV and IR...

—srikanth @ 10:05

How are the four astronomers in the pictures below related?

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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