Feb 25 2013

From The Space Library

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.

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-036 - NASA ANNOUNCES MEDIA BRIEFING ON NEW VAN ALLEN PROBES RESULTS --WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST, Thursday, Feb. 28, to discuss new observations from NASA's twin Van Allen Probes, which are studying Earth's radiation belts. The briefing will be held at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Kossiakoff Center, 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd., in Laurel, Md. The new observations have been embargoed by the journal Science until the start of the news conference, which will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. The briefing panelists are: Mona Kessel, Van Allen Probes program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington -- Dan Baker, director of the Laboratory for atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder -- Nicola Fox, Van Allen Probes deputy project scientist, the