14 DAY TRIAL // Today, Monday, November 15, at 12:30 pm EST, the American Space Agency will hold a televised news conference, in which it will present the latest discovery of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The discovery seems to be “an exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood”, according to official sources, and the news conference will be transmitted from NASA Headquarters' television studio, 300 E St. SW in Washington and carried live on NASA TV.
The team of scientists that are involved in the research will be answering any questions that the audience should have.
The group providing the analysis of this research includes Kimberly Weaver, astrophysicist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, Jon Morse, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington and Alex Filippenko, astrophysicist, University of California, Berkeley.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is part of NASA's group of "Great Observatories", which includes the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the now out-of-the-orbit Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
Chandra provides X-ray images of many exotic environments, hoping that scientists all around the world will have a better understanding of the structure and the evolution of the universe.
The Observatory is managed by the NASA Marshall Center for the Science Mission Directorate, at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.
The institution responsible for the development of every day's flight operations and science activities from the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC) and the Operations Control Center facilities is the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
SAO is a research office of the Smithsonian Institution, created in 1846 by Congress, to continue the research of Englishman James Smithson “to found at Washington ... an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge...”
Today, the institution is an independent establishment of the American government and conducts scholarly and scientific research, provides public services and administers national collections.
It also manages education, outreach programs founded by Congressional annexations, revenues and trust endowments, but also private contracts, gifts and grants.
Update: a 30-year-old black hole has been discovered 50 million light years from Earth, by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory