Dr. Vinay Kashyap

Launched in 1999 from the Space Shuttle Columbia, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, one of NASA's Great Observatories fleet, has been a flagship for advancing high-energy astrophysics for a quarter century. Its combination of unprecedentedly sharp mirrors, coupled with an instrument suite comprising CCDs, microchannel plates, and dispersion gratings, have allowed detailed investigations from the local to the distant Universe. I will touch upon results ranging from observations of aurorae in the solar system, to studies of stellar activity individually and in clusters, to planetary nebulae, and supernova remnants in both our Galaxy and elsewhere, to compact objects and AGNs, and X-ray jets.