Don Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC                       Oct. 1, 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: N99-53
 
HUBBLE PROBES SECRET LIVES OF GALAXIES
AT NEXT SPACE SCIENCE UPDATE OCT. 6

     New research and images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope 
advancing astronomers' understanding of the growth and development 
of spiral galaxies will be presented in a Space Science Update at 
1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Oct. 6, in the James E. Webb Auditorium at 
NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, Washington, DC.

     Peering deeply into the hubs of over 200 spiral galaxies, 
Hubble reveals in unprecedented detail the spectacular complexity 
in their central bulges.   With accurate new measurements of the 
ages of stars around the centers of many galaxies, possible only 
with Hubble, astronomers now have achieved a much clearer 
understanding of how galaxies like our own Milky Way came to look 
as they do.
 
     Panelists will be:
 
-- Dr. Reynier F. Peletier, astronomer, University of Nottingham, 
United Kingdom
-- Dr. C. Marcella Carollo, astronomer, Columbia University, New 
York, NY
-- Dr. Rosemary Wyse, professor of physics and astronomy, Johns 
Hopkins 
    University, Baltimore, MD
-- Dr. Donald Figer, assistant astronomer, Space Telescope Science 
Institute, Baltimore, 
    MD
-- Dr. Dave Leckrone, HST project scientist, NASA Goddard Space 
Flight Center, 
    Greenbelt, MD, panel moderator.

     The briefing will be carried live on NASA TV with two-way 
question-and-answer capability for reporters covering the event 
from participating NASA centers.
 
     NASA Television is broadcast on the GE-2 satellite, 
Transponder 9C, at 85 degrees West longitude, with vertical 
polarization, frequency 3880.0 MHz, audio 6.8 MHz. Audio of the 
broadcast will be available on voice circuit at NASA's Kennedy 
Space Center, FL, on 407/867-1220, -1240 and -1260.

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