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NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: April 2, 1999


Media Advisory m99-065

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Summary

-- Media Briefing: Performance of Deep Space 1 Advanced


Technologies
-- Video File for April 2: Hubble Heritage Picture: Tarantula
Nebula (replay)

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BRIEFING: PERFORMANCE OF DEEP SPACE 1 ADVANCED


TECHNOLOGIES

NASA's Deep Space 1 team will report next week on the


mission's revolutionary technologies, including an exotic ion
propulsion system and a robotic navigator that will guide the
spacecraft to an asteroid rendezvous this summer. The team
will brief reporters at NASA's first Space Technology Update
at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 6, in the James E. Webb
Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, Washington,
DC. The briefing will be carried live on NASA Television.
Two-way question and answer capability will be available for
news media at NASA centers. Launched in October 1998, Deep
Space 1 is the first mission in NASA's New Millennium
Program, which tests advanced technologies in flight so they
can be used with confidence on scientific spacecraft in the
21st century.

Contact at Headquarters: Douglas Isbell, 202/358-1547;


Contact at Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Franklin O'Donnell,
818/354-5011.

Full text of the release:


ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1999/n99-017.txt

If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will


e-mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:


http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html
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VIDEO FILE FOR April 2, 1999

ITEM 1 HUBBLE HERITAGE PICTURE: TARANTULA NEBULA (replay)

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ITEM 1 Hubble Heritage Picture: Tarantula Nebula (replay)
At the center of a violent starburst region lies a
cluster of brilliant, massive stars, known to astronomers as
Hodge 301. Hodge 301, seen in the lower right-hand corner of
this image, lives inside the Tarantula Nebula in our nearest
galactic neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Many of the
stars in Hodge 301 are so old that they have exploded as
supernovae. These exploded stars are blasting material out
into the surrounding region at speeds of almost 300 miles per
second, creating a multitude of sheets and filaments, seen in
the upper left portion of the picture. Hodge 301 contains
three so called red supergiants - stars that are close to the
end of their evolution and are about to become supernovae,
exploding and sending more shocks into the Tarantula. Also
present near the center of the image are small, dense gas
globules and dust columns where new stars are being formed
today, as part of the overall ongoing star formation
throughout the Tarantula region.

Contact at Headquarters: Donald Savage, 202/358-1727;


Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute: Ray Villard,
410/338-4514.

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