Astronomers will announce a significant discovery from NASA's SpitzerSpace Telescope

[Jacques van Oene]

Dolores Beasley
Headquarters, Washington April 13, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1753)

Gay Yee Hill
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(Phone: 818/354-0344)

MEDIA ADVISORY: M05-059

NASA ANNOUNCES MEDIA TELECONFERENCE FOR SPITZER DISCOVERY

Astronomers will announce a significant discovery from NASA's Spitzer
Space Telescope at a listen-and-logon news briefing Wednesday, April 20, at
1 p.m. EDT. The new finding involves a star about the size and age of our
sun, with another intriguing similarity.

Reporters should call the Media Relations Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., at: 818/354-0344, for participation
information. Images and graphics supporting the briefing will be posted
online at the start of the briefing at:

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/050420telecon/

Participants:

-- Dr. Kim Weaver, Spitzer Space Telescope program scientist, NASA
Headquarters, Washington
-- Dr. Charles Beichman, Spitzer Space Telescope scientist, California
Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, Calif.
-- Dr. Jonathan Lunine, Professor of Planetary Sciences and Physics,
University of Arizona, Tucson

The Spitzer Space Telescope is part of NASA's Great Observatories program,
which includes the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and
the previously operating Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.

JPL, a division of Caltech, manages the Spitzer mission for NASA's Science
Mission Directorate. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science
Center, Pasadena.


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