1995: On 21 August 1995, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar died.
An Indian-born astrophysicist, he was a Nobel Laureate in 1983. The term Chandrasekhar's limit shows that those stars which retain an end-of-life mass above a certain limit, collapse. This discovery was contrary to the thinking at the time which assumed that all stars ended their lives as white dwarfs and it subsequently led to the discovery of neutron stars and black holes.
Medien-Modal
19 August
18 August
17 August
auf dem Laufenden bleiben
Abonnieren Sie unseren Newsletter, um die neuesten Nachrichten, Missionsupdates und exklusiven Einblicke direkt in Ihrem Posteingang zu erhalten. Erfahren Sie als Erste von unseren kommenden Projekten und Durchbrüchen.