Advisory: 2012-257b Aug. 23, 2012
NASA Event to Discuss Black Holes and Extreme Objects
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PADADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, Aug. 29, to announce new discoveries from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The discoveries are related to the distant universe, including supermassive black holes and rare galaxies.
The briefing participants are:
-- Daniel Stern, astronomer, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Peter Eisenhardt, WISE project scientist, JPL
-- Jingwen Wu, astronomer, JPL
-- Rachel Somerville, astrophysics professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
A link to the teleconference graphics will be available at the start of the event at www.nasa.gov/wise .
For live audio of the teleconference, visit http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio .
Whitney Clavin 818-354-4673
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
whitney.clavin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
J.D. Harrington 202-358-5241
Headquarters, Washington
j.d.harrington@xxxxxxxx
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