Who is the scientist in whose honour the “Chandra” X-ray telescope has been named ?

The Chandra X‑ray Observatory was named in honour of Indian‑American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. NASA’s Chandra is the agency’s premier X‑ray telescope and has been in operation since 1999; it was explicitly named after Chandrasekhar in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the theory of stellar structure and evolution [1]. Chandrasekhar, widely known as “Chandra,” was a Nobel Prize–winning physicist whose work (including the Chandrasekhar limit) established him as a leading twentieth‑century astrophysicist. He emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and spent most of his career at the University of Chicago, which underpins the choice of his name for the mission [2].

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1. [1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chandra-X-Ray-Observatory
2. [2] https://chandra.harvard.edu/about/chandra.html