Nov. 2, 2010 Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@xxxxxxxx MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-155 NASA'S FERMI FINDS GIANT, PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN STRUCTURE IN OUR GALAXY WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 9, to discuss a new discovery by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of light. The soon-to-be published findings include the discovery of enormous but previously unrecognized "gamma-ray bubbles" centered in the Milky Way. Teleconference panelists are: - Jon Morse, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington - Julie McEnery, Fermi project scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. - Doug Finkbeiner, associate professor of astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. - Simona Murgia, Fermi research associate, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif. - David Spergel, astrophysicist, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. For dial-in information, journalists should e-mail their name, media affiliation and telephone number to Trent Perrotto at trent.j.perrotto@xxxxxxxxx Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio For more information about NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/fermi -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
