WASHINGTON -- Astronomers will hold a media teleconference Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 1 p.m. EST to announce important new results on dark energy that were made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The briefing participants are: -- Alexey Vikhlinin, astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass. -- William Forman, astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory -- David Spergel, theoretical astrophysicist, Princeton University
To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact the Chandra press office at 617-496-7998 or via e-mail at mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu before noon on Tuesday, Dec. 16, for dial-in information.
A video file about the discovery will air on NASA Television on Dec. 16. The teleconference audio will be streamed live on the Web at: