Washington: NASA To Hold Media Teleconference About Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 PM EDT Wednesday, August 15, to discuss an extraordinary galaxy cluster that is smashing several important cosmic records.

The panelists are:
-- Michael McDonald, Hubble Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
-- Bradford Benson, astrophysicist, University of Chicago
-- Megan Donahue, professor of astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing
-- Martin Rees, professor of cosmology and astrophysics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

For dial-in information to ask questions, reporters must send their name, media affiliation and telephone number to j.d.harrington@nasa.gov by noon August 15.

The general public also can ask the panelists questions via Twitter using the hashtag #asknasa.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio
For more information about NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, visit:

http://chandra.harvard.edu

and

http://www.nasa.gov/chandra

Contacts:
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/aug/M12-147_Chandra_News_Conf.html

Reported by: NASA

Published on: 2012-08-09

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