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  1. This anniversary, we celebrate the team behind the mission. Thanks, Chandra team, for all you do!

    (Shown here is a group shot of some of the team, past and present, at the party at our Control Center yesterday).
    #Chandra25 #Astrodon #ChandraScience

  2. #OTD in 1999, the Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off with the heaviest payload ever sent to orbit on the STS -- the #ChandraXRay Observatory. Soon after, Chandra was deployed from the Cargo Bay and boosted to its final orbit via the final Shuttle-based launch of the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS).
    #Chandra25 #NASA #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #OTD1999 #XRaysAreTheBestRays

  3. We're here at the Main Event of #HEAD21 -- The #Chandra25 Session. We have three talks---by Daryl Haggard, Tea Temim, and Stephanie LaMassa---on Sgr A*, Supernovae, and AGN, respectively. #ChandraScience

  4. Are you at #HEAD21? Come swing by our booth! Get a brand-new #Chandra25 sticker, find out about the upcoming symposium (cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/cdo/sympos), ask your questions about the observatory, and find out about the great new work being done by our archives and source catalog teams!

    #XRaysAreTheBestRays #ChandraScience #Astrodon

  5. Has your institution reached out about having a speaker from the @ChandraScience Observatory talk about #Chandra25? We give great talks, and we're happy to travel! #Astrodon #Physics #Astrophysics #XRaysAreTheBestRays #ChandraXRay #SaveChandra