NASA's Fermi Finds Giant, Previously Unseen Structure In Our Galaxy

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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