NASA'S WISE Scientists to Discuss Black Holes and Extreme Objects

J.D. Harrington

Headquarters, Washington

202-358-5241

j.d.harrington@nasa.gov

 

Whitney Clavin

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

818-354-4673

whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 29, to announce new discoveries from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The discoveries are related to the distant universe, including supermassive black holes and rare galaxies.

The briefing participants are:

-- Daniel Stern, astronomer, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.

-- Peter Eisenhardt, WISE project scientist, JPL

-- Jingwen Wu, astronomer, JPL

-- Rachel Somerville, Downsbrough Chair in Astrophysics, Rutgers University

A link to the teleconference graphics will be available at the start of the event at www.nasa.gov/wise.

For dial-in information, reporters should email their name, affiliation and telephone number to j.d.harrington@nasa.gov by noon Aug. 29.

For live audio of the teleconference, visit http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio.

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