NASA's new TRW-built Chandra X-ray Observatory

NASA's new TRW-built Chandra X-ray Observatory has returned its first images, elating project scientists, who said the instruments and optics on the $1.5-billion telescope are performing as expected. Chandra's first image shows the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant, the nearest and most recent...

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