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According to Harvey D. Tananbaum, director of the AXAF Science Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, the advanced X-ray astrophysics facility (AXAF) allows physicists to produce images of objects which cannot be differentiated by other telescopes...
...scientists, AXAF will offer two advances over current x-ray telescopes. According to Harvey Tananbaum, associate director at CFA, the new telescope "will be able to take sharper pictures, detecting fainter, more distant sources." Also, AXAF will remain in orbit for 15 years, in contrast to current telescopes, which function for only a year...
...news release, Tananbaum said, "The main function of the science center will be to provide a bridge between the international scientific community and the orbiting x-ray telescope...
...Once up, Tananbaum said yesterday, AXAF will provide a "library" of information, providing students with data for projects and these, and ongoing opportunities for Harvard faculty as well
AXAF, an orbital observatory for detailed long range study of X-ray emissions in space. should be under construction by 1987 and is expected to be operational from 1990 to 2005. Tananbaum said...