NASA's Fermi To Reveal New Findings About The Early Universe

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Oct 29, 2012, 01:48 ET

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Nov. 1, to discuss new measurements using gamma rays to investigate ancient starlight with the agency's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

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Science Journal has embargoed details until 2 p.m. on Nov. 1.

The teleconference panelists are:

- Justin Finke, astrophysicist, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington

- Marco Ajello, astrophysicist, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, and the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley

- Volker Bromm, associate professor, department of astronomy, University of Texas at Austin

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

SOURCE NASA