Chandra is one of the Great Observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (1991 -- 2000), and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The telescope is named after the Nobel Prize - winning Indian - American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Its mission is similar to that of ESA 's XMM - Newton spacecraft, also launched in 1999.
who is nasa's chandra xray observatory named after
the Nobel Prize - winning Indian - American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar