“Kevin Remhof has submitted us a piece on an area of Linux that
a lot of you might not be familiar with, but may wish to be: Linux
and X-Ray Astronomy. Talks about some of the things you can do, as
well as common applications to do them with.”
“On July 23, 1999, NASA deployed the Chandra X-Ray observatory
from the Space Shuttle Columbia. This telescope is a major leap
forward in X-Ray astronomy. It will enable scientists to study dark
matter, black holes, and other objects with great detail. I was
checking out the information on the Chandra website and started to
wonder about the software behind this telescope. So, I did a little
searching on NASA’as website and found some interesting
information. What I found is that X-Ray Astronomy is depending more
and more on Linux for analyzing the data.”