Operator
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Raytheon Technologies Fourth Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. My name is Norma, and I ll be your operator for today. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. On the call today are Greg Hayes, Chief Executive Officer; Toby O Brien, Chief Financial Officer; Neil Mitchill, Corporate Vice President and Financial Planning, Analysis and Investor Relations. This call is being carried live on the Internet and there is a presentation available for download from Raytheon Technologies website at www.rtx.com. Please note, except where otherwise noted, the company will speak to results from continuing operations, excluding net non-recurring and non or significant items and acquisition accounting adjustments, often referred to by management as other significant items. The company also reminds listeners that earnings and cash flow expectations and other forward-looking statements provided in this call
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By Daniel Stolte, University of Arizona Jan. 7, 2021 Located 12 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, M82, or the Cigar Galaxy, is known for its intense rate of star formation. Vast regions of gas provide the fuel from which new stars are born. The Aspera mission will send a small telescope into space to map the distribution of some of this gas and help answer fundamental questions about how galaxies evolve.
NASA has selected Carlos Vargas, a UArizona postdoctoral researcher, to lead a $20 million mission to build a space telescope that will map vast regions of star-forming gas that have eluded observation for decades.
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