2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11910The unique power of AXAF (NASA's Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility) - due for launch in late 1988 - make it both the culmination of 20 years of X-ray astronomy, and a new starting point for X-ray astrophysics. This short paper tries to show just how revolutionary AXAF is.4 pages, LaTeX, uses crckapb.sty, psfig To appear in `The Hot Universe', IAU Symposium 188Astrophysicstext