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1		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar NASA's premier X-ray observatory was named the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Indian-American Nobel laureate, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. (Photo: AIP)
2		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar The Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility was renamed the Chandra X-ray Observatory in December of 1998 to honor the late Indian-American Nobel laureate, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. (Photo: Univ. of Chicago)
3		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar AXAF was renamed the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The Chandra X-ray Observatory will help astronomers better understand the structure and evolution of the universe by studying powerful sources of X-rays. (Photo: AIP)
4		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar AXAF was renamed the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Tyrel Johnson, a student from Idaho, and Jatila van der Veen, a physics and astronomy teacher from California, submitted the winning name and essays. (Photo: AIP)
5		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar AXAF was renamed the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The telescope was launched July 23, 1999 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-93. (Photo: Univ. of Chicago)
6		Mrs. Chandrasekhar & Contest Winners Mrs. Lalitha Chandrasekhar (left), wife of the late Indian-American Nobel Laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, poses with a model of the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the winners of the contest to rename the telescope in the TRW (now NGST) Media Hospitality Tent at the NASA Press Site at KSC. The winners of the contest are Jatila van der Veen (center), academic coordinator and lecturer, Physics Dept., University of California, at Santa Barbara, and Tyrel Johnson (right), high school student, Laclede, Idaho. (Photo: NASA)
7		Mrs. Chandrasekhar Mrs. Lalitha Chandrasekhar, wife of the late Indian-American Nobel Laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, poses with a model of the Chandra X-ray Observatory in the TRW (now NGST) Media Hospitality Tent at the NASA Press Site at KSC. The name "Chandra," a shortened version of Chandrasekhar's name which he preferred among friends and colleagues, was chosen to honor the Nobel Laureate. "Chandra" also means "Moon" or "luminous" in Sanskrit. (Photo: NASA)
8		Group Photo Fred Whipple, Chandra, Gerard Kuiper, Gerald Mulders

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