Word: cfa
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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...
...addition to CFA, groups at MIT, Columbia University and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland comprise the consortium that will direct the mission, which may run as long as three years...