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April Jubett

Center for Astrophysics

April Jubett

ahobart@cfa.harvard.edu

About

April Jubett started out as a biological illustrator, and has been 3D-modeling and animating science stories for most of her career. She still loves biology as well as astronomy, and enjoys thinking about how physics plays a role in our natural world, both in our own bodies and backyards and in the universe at large.

Telescopes and Instruments

Chandra

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is NASA’s flagship X-ray observatory, providing essential data on everything from the environment surrounding newborn stars to the emissions from hot plasma inside galaxy clusters. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), as part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, manages Chandra’s day-to-day operations, providing spacecraft control, observation planning, and data processing for astronomers. Chandra is one of NASA’s orbiting Great Observatories, along with the Hubble.

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