Chandra issued an image and press release on March 14, 2022, “Tiny Star Unleashes Gargantuan Beam of Matter and Antimatter”. A city-sized collapsed star has generated a beam of matter and antimatter that stretches for trillions of miles. Data from …
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Shelia Nash-Stevenson (ST14) was honored as one of the 2022 Women Who Shape the State by the This is Alabama organization. She was featured in an interview and video on their website at: https://www.thisisalabama.org/women-who-shape-the-state/.
Shelia Nash-Stevenson, along with Alphonse Sterling (ST13), participated in the 2022 Youth Motivation Task Force Outreach Program (YMTF) at Alabama A&M University (AAMU) virtually as a Consultant Team Lead. The YMTF program provides an opportunity for professionals from various backgrounds …
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On March 10, 2022, a Chandra entitled “Create Your Own Homunculus Nebula with Chandra and Hubble” was released in the NASA STEM Newsletter. This newsletter was sent to 56,543 subscribers and shared with the office of STEM engagements social media tools …
Chandra issued an image release on February 28, 2022 and a press release on March 2, 2022, “The Unfolding Story of Kilonova Told in X-rays”. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory continues to study GW170817, a neutron star merger that produced gravitational …
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Chandra’s second virtual presentation was on February 24, 2022, held as part of the STEM Human Exploration and Space Launch Initiative Artemis Student Challenge. Steven Ehlert, ST12, presented to a group of students virtually, ranging from high school all the …
On February 21, 2022, Chandra resumed a full schedule of science observations with its primary instrument, the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). This followed the intentional safing of science instruments on February 9th due to an anomaly which indicated a …
On March 5, 2022, after a science data hiatus of a little over 2 months, Hinode resumed normal science operations. On December 27, 2022 Hinode’s star tracker lost lock on one star and this resulted in an eventual safe hold …
Chandra issued a press release on January 11, 2022, “Astronomers Find Most Luminous “COW” to Shine in X-rays”. Another member of the new COW class of supernova explosions has been discovered, the brightest one seen in X-rays to date. The …
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Chandra, “R Aquarii: An Expanse of Light”, was featured in NASA image of the day February 3, 2022. The universe emits light or energy in many different forms. This object is, in fact, a pair: a white dwarf star that …
