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Chandra Delivers First Images

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug 30 -- The Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA's newest and most powerful x-ray telescope, has delivered its first images. Chandra produced an enhanced view of the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant using a 5000-s exposure of the observatory's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS). The detailed image shows the stellar shock waves associated with the explosion of a star. It may also provide x-ray astronomers with their first glimpse of a neutron star or black hole remnant of the explosion believed to have produced the Cassiopeia A remnant. The results were unveiled at a news...Read full article

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