MEDIA ADVISORY M19-145
NASA to Announce New Discoveries at Annual Astronomy Meeting
NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of astrophysics and other space science topics at the 235th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Saturday, Jan. 4, through Wednesday, Jan. 8, in Honolulu. NASA-related briefings will stream live on the agency’s website.
All briefings will take place at 3:15 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. EST, starting Sunday, Jan. 5. Topics include:
- Otherworldly discoveries from NASA’s planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- Hubble Space Telescope findings, ranging from gargantuan galaxies to the smallest clumps of dark matter
- Extreme insights from the Chandra X-ray Observatory on a famous supermassive black hole
- New infrared images of the cosmos from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
For a complete and up-to-date schedule of briefings, media participation, and full webcast information, visit:
https://aas.org/meetings/aas235/press-kit#briefings
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