News release: 2013-071 Feb. 25, 2013 NASA Hosts Media Teleconference About Black Hole Studies The full version of this story with accompanying images is at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-071&cid=release_2013-071 PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (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 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 NuSTAR, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nustar . 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 . Whitney Clavin 818-354-4673 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. whitney.clavin@xxxxxxxxxxxx J.D. Harrington 202-358-5241 Headquarters, Washington j.d.harrington@xxxxxxxx - end - |