CORRECTION -- NASA Hosts Media Teleconference About Black Hole Studies

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Feb. 25, 2013

J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-5241
j.d.har...@nasa.gov

Whitney Clavin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-4673
whitney...@jpl.nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-030

CORRECTION -- NASA HOSTS MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ABOUT BLACK HOLE STUDIES

This release is being reissued to correct the URL for NuSTAR
information.

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EST,
Wednesday, Feb. 27, to announce black hole observations from its
newest X-ray telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
(NuSTAR), and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.


The briefing participants are:

-- Fiona Harrison, NuSTAR principal investigator, California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Guido Risaliti, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
-- Arvind Parmar, head of Astrophysics and Fundamental Physics
Missions Division, European Space Agency

For dial-in information, media representatives should e-mail their
name, affiliation and telephone number to J.D. Harrington at
j.d.har...@nasa.gov by noon Feb. 27.

Visuals will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA's
NuSTAR site:

http://www.nasa.gov/nustar

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website
at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

Audio and visuals will be streamed live online at:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

For more information about the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton
X-ray telescope, visit:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_overview

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