Chandra Digest 24 May 2002

**N132D**

Glowing Remnant from a Star-Shattering Explosion

This new “true color” Chandra image of N132D shows the beautiful,
complex remnant of an explosion of a massive star in the Large
Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy about 180,000 light years from Earth.
The colors represent different ranges of X-rays, with red, green, and
blue representing low, medium, and higher X-ray energies respectively.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0050/

** Operations CXO Status Report (Friday 05/24/02)

During the last week the observing schedule was interrupted following a
high radiation event at 5:58am EDT on May 23 that stopped the daily load
and activated the science instrument safing sequence (SCS 107).
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/updates/update_052402.html

NEW & NOTEWORTHY!

++ Chandra Hardware Resources: Updated Chandra Hardware Section with
information regarding Chandra mirrors, science instruments, including a
new interactive spacecraft.

http://chandra.harvard.edu/about/hardware.html

++ All recent New & Noteworthy features are available at
http://chandra.harvard.edu/new.html