Science Projects Branch
The dedicated team at the Science Projects Branch provides oversight and support to numerous, cutting-edge, research projects and science teams across the Division. In addition to the projects listed below, they also manage the Chandra X-ray Observatory Program.
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Earth Science
- SERVIR
Astrophysics
- Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
- Lynx X-ray Observatory
- StarBurst
Optical Telescopes
- Predictive Thermal Control (PTC)
- Critical Technologies for Large Telescopes (CTLT)
Data Science
- IMPACT
- SNWG
- TOPS
Heliophysics
- Full sun Ultraviolet Rocket Spectrometer (FURST),
- Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer, (MaGIXS)
- Hinode
- Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT)
- Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP)
- Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP 2)
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Science Project Updates
Several funding proposals for General Observer (GO) IXPE observations have been accepted by NASA headquarters. They are “X-ray polarization of a TeV binary” and “X-ray polarimetry of bright atoll sources” led by Philip Kaaret and “Unraveling particle acceleration in astrophysical…
Chandra was represented at the “Rocket Fair” event tied to NASA’s annual Student Launch event. ~1200 students from across the country were in attendance to showcase their model rocket concepts and browse other team setups. It was a very captive…
These Chandra Instagram experiences join a space-themed collection in Instagram from recent years, that includes NASA mission control, the International Space Station, and the Perseverance Rover on Mars. The objects in the new Chandra Instagram collection include the Tycho supernova…
Studies of the composition of the different parts of the remnant have led scientists to believe that it was formed in a thermonuclear explosion, and more precisely a special kind of supernova called a sub-luminous Type Iax event. During this…
The Astrophysical Journal published online “Discovery of Kiloparsec-Scale Semirelativistic Fe Kα Complex Emission in NGC 5728” by Anna Trindade-Falcaõ et al. This paper investigates kpc-scale emission consistent with highly redshifted Fe Kα, which suggests outflows from supermassive black holes may…