NASA To Hold Media Teleconference About Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster

Aug. 9, 2012

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-147

NASA TO HOLD MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ABOUT RECORD-BREAKING GALAXY CLUSTER

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT
Wednesday, Aug. 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 Aug. 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


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