NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Feb. 9, 1999

Media Advisory m99-028

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

* VAST STELLAR DISKS SET STAGE FOR PLANET BIRTH

IN NEW HUBBLE IMAGES

* LIVE INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY ON AVIATION OF THE FUTURE

* VIDEO FILE FOR FEB. 9, 1999

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VAST STELLAR DISKS SET STAGE FOR PLANET BIRTH

IN NEW HUBBLE IMAGES

Dramatic pictures of eerie disks of dust encircling

young stars are giving astronomers a new look at what may be
the early formative stages of planetary systems.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage

202/358-1727.
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:
Nancy Neal 301/286-0039.
Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD:
Ray Villard 410/338-4707.

For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-010.txt

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If NASA issues additional news releases later today, we

will e-mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.

Index of 1998 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1998/index.html

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html
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LIVE INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY ON AVIATION OF THE FUTURE

"Wings on America," a NASA initiative to develop -- with

industry and other government agencies -- technology for the
air travel of the future will be the topic. NASA has a vision
of the future in which small aircraft may be as easy to use
and as inexpensive as today's luxury car. "Wings on America"
would make doorstep-to-destination travel possible at four
times the speed of today's highways.
Interview opportunities are available with Dr. Bruce
Holmes, head of NASA's General Aviation Office,on Friday,
Feb. 12, 6:00 - 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST. B-Roll
is available that includes two new state-of-the-art small
aircraft and 3-D animation of "smart airports" and the
cockpits of the future.
Contact at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA:
Ivelisse Gilman 757/864-5036.

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VIDEO FILE FOR FEBRUARY 9, 1999

ITEM 1. YOUNG STELLAR DISKS IN NEW HUBBLE IMAGES

ITEM 2. STARDUST MISSION LAUNCH (replay)
launch, animation, B-Roll, interviews
ITEM 3. NEAR MISSION SCIENCE RESULTS (replay)
Eros rendezvous movie and stills
ITEM 4. X-38 FLIGHT TEST (replay)
flight test, animation, B-Roll, interviews

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ITEM 1. YOUNG STELLAR DISKS IN NEW HUBBLE IMAGES

Two of Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) cameras imaged
newly formed stars and planets, some over 450 light years
away. Animation and 10 HST images show these bodies being
formed in rotating disks of dust, gas, and jets of gas that
shoot material into space for billions of miles. Interviews
also included.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage

202/358-1727.
Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD:
Ray Villard 410/338-4707.

ITEM 2. STARDUST MISSION LAUNCH (replay)

launch, animation, B-Roll, interviews

Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA:

Mary Beth Murrill 818/354-5011.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Doug Isbell
202/358-1753.

ITEM 3. NEAR MISSION SCIENCE RESULTS (replay)

Eros rendezvous movie and stills

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage

202/358-1727.
Contact at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD:
Ben Walker 240 228-6792.

ITEM 4. X-38 FLIGHT TEST (replay)

flight test, animation, B-Roll, interviews

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dwayne C.

Brown 202/358-1726.
Contact at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA:
Fred A. Brown 805/258-2663.

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NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: 202/358-4555.

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