Category: Astronomy and Space Science Event Format: Media
Opportunity Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 Location:
Washington, DC 20564, US WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media
teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday, Dec. 12, to discuss the
latest findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers
will report on recent observations of a previously unseen
population of primitive galaxies that formed more than 13
billion years ago. The teleconference panelists are: -- Richard
Ellis, astrophysicist, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, Calif. -- Abraham Loeb, chair, Astronomy Department,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. For dial-in information,
journalists must e-mail their name, media affiliation and
telephone number to J.D. Harrington at email@example.com by 1
p.m. Dec. 12. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live
on NASA's website at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio For more
information about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/hubble