During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.

A Chandra image release was issued on Jun 4 describing the discovery of a possible supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our galaxy. If confirmed, it would be one of the closest ever discovered to the supermassive black hole at the central region of the Milky Way galaxy, a region dense with massive stars, long threads of magnetic fields, and clouds of gas orbiting rapidly around the Galactic Center. The image joins X-ray data from Chandra and XMM with radio data from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa and optical data from Pan-STARRS in Hawaii. If this is indeed a supernova remnant, then it is expanding at about two million miles per hour and is at least about 1,700 years old. For details, see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2026/sgrc/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of TDE2025abcr, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on May 21, and an observation of SN2026obc, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jun 11.