Chandra Digest (Apr 10): New Form of Matter?

TOP STORY:

** RX J1856.5-3754 and 3C58: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found
two stars — one too small, one too cold — that reveal cracks in our
understanding of the structure of matter. These discoveries open a new
window on nuclear physics, offering a link between the vast cosmos and
its tiniest constituents.

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0211/

** Operations CXO Status Report (Friday 04/05/02)

During the last week the loads were interrupted on 2 April due to an
execution of the Science Instrument safing SCS 107. The SCS was executed
by the OBC as a result of the EPHIN hardware fault flag being set.
Analysis of both real-time and dump data showed no problems with the
hardware and a procedure was run on 3 April to re-initialize the OBC
EPHIN process and resume science.

http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/updates/update_040502.html

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++ CHANDRA CHRONICLES: A Scientist’s Musings On Chandra And Jupiter
With a fleet of ground-based and space-borne observatories fixed on
Jupiter simultaneously, scientists came up with some remarkable results.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/chronicle/

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