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...High Energy Astrophysical Observatory-2, an x-ray facility astronomers say may produce far-reaching advances in astrophysical research, had a successful launch at 12:24 this morning when it was boosted into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Fla, by an Atlas-Centaur rocket...
Astonomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said yesterday they hope the findings of an advanced X-Ray telescope, scheduled to be boosted into orbit early next week, will provide a milestone in astrophysical research...
Sponsored primarily by a Center for Astrophysics (CFA) team headed by professor of astronomy Riccardo Giacconi, the High Energy Astrophysical Observatory-B (HEAO-B), to be renamed the "Einstein Observatory" upon reaching orbit is designed to for the first time take high resolution X-Ray photographs of a variety of distant cosmic objects, including neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, hot gas clouds and clusters of galaxies...
Giacconi said yesterday that HEAO-B is a necessary tool for studying the universe. "Effective X-Ray astronomy can't be done on the ground...we absolutely must be in space," he said...
Paul Gorenstein, lecturer on astronomy, said he expects HEAO-B to "Make major contributions not only to X-Ray astronomy but to astronomy in general...