Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data

Made:
2017 in United States
Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data
Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data Box used to ship disk packs carrying black hole image data

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Cardboard box covered in tape and stamps, used to ship observation data disk packs to the Submillimeter Array (SMA) telescope in Hawaii in early 2017, for use in the Event Horizon Telescope observation campaign that resulted in the first ever image of a black hole, located in the Messier 87 Galaxy, and published in 2019.

Details

Category:
Astronomy
Object Number:
2024-492
Materials:
cardboard and paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 320 mm x 483 mm x 356 mm,
type:
box - container

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