Phil, is a consolidation mutually exclusive with a merger ?
merger - The union of two or more commercial interests or corporations.
If MGR wanted to attract new investment money, a consolidation helps.
I thought that this was done, and a name change as an extra.
To me new money into MGR is not a commercial interest type activity,
leading to the descriptive word of merger to be used.
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NASA's new $1 billion Chandra telescope is performing as expected.
The orbiting telescope, called the Chandra X-ray Observatory, captured as its
first view an image of the Cassiopeia A supernova, a star in the Milky Way
galaxy that exploded about 300 years ago. (600 billion light years away)
A light year is the distance light travels across space in a year,
about 6 trillion miles.
Left, an x-ray image from the Chandra telescope.
Right, a light image.
The image contains such detail of the explosion and its surrounding
cloud that scientists say they have detected evidence of what may be
a black hole near its center.
A second image released Thursday shows an X-ray jet streaming some
200,000 light years into intergalactic space from a quasar some 6
billion light years away.
Quasars are distant, very energetic stellar objects that may spew forth
X-rays and visible light equal to the total brightness of trillions of
stars.
Chandra, the world's largest and most sensitive X-ray telescope,
was launched July 23, and is still undergoing orbital checkout and
calibration tests. But officials said the initial images show that the
space telescope "is in excellent health," a NASA statement said.
"We were astounded by these images," Harvey Tananbaum, director of the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge,
Mass., said in a statement. He said the images show in detail the shock
wave racing away from the supernova center at millions of miles an hour.
Chandra joins NASA's fleet of orbiting observatories that include the
Hubble Space Telescope, which collects images in visible light, and the
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, which studies gamma ray emissions.
Chandra operates from a high orbit, ranging from 6,000 to 86,400 miles
above the Earth. It detects X-rays, an invisible radiation that spews
out from stars and fields of hot gas, such as those that might surround
a black hole. Heated heavy elements in space give off X-rays of specific
intensities. Chandra is able to measure those intensities and identify
specific elements.
Chandra was named in honor of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a pioneer
astronomer at the University of Chicago and a winner of the Nobel Prize.
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