Feb. 25, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@xxxxxxxx Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@xxxxxxxxxxxx MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-030 NASA HOSTS MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ABOUT BLACK HOLE STUDIES 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.harrington@xxxxxxxx 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 -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
