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RELEASE NO. 99-082
Unfolding the Cosmos With the Hubble Space Telescope
During a talk at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., a
member of the Hubble Space Telescope team will discuss the
mysteries of the universe that have been discovered with the
telescope.
Dr. Henry C. Ferguson, a project leader for "Hubble Deep Field"
at the Space
Telescope Science Institute, will present "Measuring Cosmic
Evolution with the Hubble Space Telescope" at a colloquium at 2
p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 7, at NASA Langley's H.J.E Reid Conference
Center.
Media briefing
A media briefing will be held at 1:15 p.m. in
the Wythe Room of the Reid Conference Center, 14 Langley Blvd. at
NASA Langley. Media who wish to attend the briefing should contact
Kimberly W. Land at (757) 864-9885.
The Hubble Deep Field project has provided the deepest optical
image of the distant universe to date. Ferguson will review what
has been learned from the observations so far and outline some of
the questions and paradoxes that still remain in trying to chart
cosmic evolution.
Ferguson has degrees from Harvard University in Cambridge,
Mass., and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. He has also
held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge, and
a Hubble postdoctoral fellowship at the Space Telescope Science
Institute in Baltimore, where he has been a staff member since
1995.
The public is invited to the
Sigma Series lecture at the Virginia Air and Space
Center that evening at 7:30.
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