Don Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC                    February 5, 1999
(Phone:  202/358-1547)

Nancy Neal
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone:  301/286-0039)

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

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N99-7

FEB. 9 UPDATE FEATURES HUBBLE'S BEST LOOK AT PLANETARY BIRTH

     Dramatic new Hubble Space Telescope images of eerie edge-on 
disks of dust encircling young stars -- believed to be the early 
formative stages of planetary systems -- will be the topic of the 
next Space Science Update (SSU) at 1 p.m. EST, February 9, 1999.

     The SSU, entitled "Dusty Disks, the Builders of Worlds," will 
be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St. SW, 
Washington, DC, and will be broadcast live on NASA Television, with 
two-way question-and-answer capability for reporters covering the 
event from participating NASA centers.  The panelists will discuss 
the latest findings and the clearest views to date of planetary 
construction zones.

The panelists are:

*  Deborah Padgett, Staff Scientist, Infrared Processing and 
Analysis Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, Pasadena, 
CA
*  Karl Stapelfeldt, Astronomer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 
Pasadena, CA
*  Glenn Schneider, NICMOS Project Instrument Scientist, University 
of Arizona, Steward Observatory, Tucson, AZ
*  Steven Beckwith, Director, Space Telescope Science Institute, 
Baltimore, MD
*  Dave Leckrone, Senior Project Scientist for HST, NASA Goddard 
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, panel moderator.

     NASA Television is broadcast on the GE2 satellite which is 
located on Transponder 9C, at 85 degrees West longitude, vertical 
polarization, frequency 3880.0 Mhz, audio 6.8 MHz.  Audio of the 
broadcast will be available on voice circuit at the Kennedy Space 
Center on 407/867-1220, -1240 or  -1260.

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