Nov 2, 2010

Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0321 trent j perrotto@nasa gov

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@nasa gov

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

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