March 4, 2005

Dolores Beasley 
Headquarters, Washington 
(Phone: 202/358-1753)

Susan Hendrix
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-7745) 

Ray Villard 
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 
(Phone: 410/338-4514) 

MEDIA ADVISORY: M05-031

NASA TELECONFERENCE: HUBBLE RESULTS ON THE GALAXY'S HEAVY STARS

Astronomers will present new findings from NASA's Hubble Space 
Telescope (HST) at a media teleconference on Wednesday, March 9 from 
2 to 3 p.m. EST. 

These findings have taken astronomers a step closer to understanding 
the star formation process and may provide the strongest evidence yet 
to support the notion stars have a weight limit. 

Reporters should call: 888/694-8940; provide the passcode "Hubble." At 
the start of the briefing, images and graphics supporting the 
conference will be posted on the Internet at: 

http://nm-private.stsci.edu/inprogress/2005/050309Mediatelecon 

The system will prompt twice for username (figer) and password 
(arches).

Briefing participants: 

-- Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, panel moderator and HST Program Scientist, 
NASA Headquarters 
-- Dr. Don Figer, Associate Astronomer, Space Telescope Science 
Institute, Baltimore 
-- Dr. Sally Oey, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of 
Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

	
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