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As editor of Mercury magazine, the acclaimed publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Robert Naeye views hundreds of astronomical images every month. Among his
favorites are those captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In fact, he likes them so much that he has assembled a presentation of the best of these images for a variety of objects.
Chandra maintains an unusual high-Earth orbit. The elliptical shape swings the observatory almost a third of the way to the Moon, before it swings back to Earth at a distance of just 10,000 km/ 6,200 miles. Each orbit is complete in 64 hours and 18 minutes, providing up to 55 hours of uninterrupted observation. The observatory carries an x-ray telescope designed to scan supernova remnants and pulsars. Onboard instrumentation processes these images and relays them to NASA for analysis. Chandra's showplace instrument, the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer, boasts a pixel resolution 50 times better than the Rosat Observatory. Join us on May 11 to see Robert's collection of these spectacular images. As always, visitors are welcome.
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