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Friday 27 June 2025 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. A Chandra image release was issued on Jun 25, describing observations of the Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Observations of Andromeda have been useful in understanding our own spiral galaxy, which can be difficult to do since Earth is embedded inside the Milky Way. The new composite image combines X-ray data from Chandra with radio, infrared, optical, and ultraviolet observations, each of which reveals different aspects of Andromeda. The observations have also been made available as a sonification. For details, see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/m31/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below. |
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A1795 ACIS-S Jun 30
Kepler'sSNR ACIS-S
NGVSJ123020.05+1155 ACIS-S
IGRJ18149-2247 ACIS-S
Abell370 ACIS-I
A85North ACIS-I Jul 1
Radiation Belts
Kepler'sSNR ACIS-S
G29-38 HRC-I Jul 2
Abell370 ACIS-I
A85North ACIS-I
HEPG016.392-09.915 ACIS-I
SDSSJ0100+2802 ACIS-I
RXCJ1314.4-2515 ACIS-I Jul 3
[JDW2009]G359.55+0. ACIS-I
SDSSJ0100+2802 ACIS-I
NGC_6814_s4 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts Jul 4
A1795 ACIS-I
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I
A1795 ACIS-I Jul 5
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I
A1795 ACIS-I
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I
A1795 ACIS-I
[JDW2009]G359.55+0. ACIS-I Jul 6
NGVSJ123027.37+0749 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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Revised: July 08, 2022