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M82 Black Hole Press Kit

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Chandra Spacecraft and M82 The Chandra X-Ray Observatory is the third in NASA's family of Great Observatories that includes the Hubble Space Telescope and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program. TRW (now NGST) was the prime contractor for the spacecraft. Key subcontractors include Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, and Raytheon Optical Systems, Inc. The scientific instruments were built by teams from MIT, Pennsylvania State University, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the Laboratory for Space Research in the Netherlands, and the Max Planck Institute in Germany. The Smithsonian's Chandra X-ray Center controls science and flight operations from Cambridge, MA.

M82 Black Hole Press Kit Contents:
  1. NASA Press Release (12 Sep 00) -
    Chandra Clinches Case for New Type of Black Hole

  2. A Press Guide to Chandra Contacts

  3. Fact Sheets & Biographies
    1. Fact Sheets
      1. More About Black Holes
      2. The Chandra X-Ray Observatory
    2. Biographies
      1. P. Kaaret
      2. D. Kniffen
      3. H. Matsumoto
      4. A. Prestwich
      5. D. Richstone
      6. M. Ward

  4. Still Images & Video
    1. Still Images
      1. M82 Chandra image
      2. M82 Optical comparison
    2. Animation/Video
      1. Colliding Black Holes Simulation
      2. New Type of Black Hole in M82
      3. Collision Between Three Galaxies

  5. Press Kit in PDF Format (138 KB)



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