NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: July 2, 1999

Media Advisory m99-134

Summary:

-- Upcoming Live Event: Historic Glenn Mission Helps Explain Solar

Mystery, July 8
-- Video File for July 2: Globular Cluster -- Swarm of Ancient Stars

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HISTORIC GLENN MISSION HELPS EXPLAIN SOLAR MYSTERY, JULY 8

Coordinated observations by two spacecraft during John Glenn's

return to space have provided a surprising explanation for a persistent
solar mystery: Why does the high-speed solar wind race away from the Sun
twice as fast as expected? The discovery will be the subject of a Space
Science Update press briefing at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 8, in the
James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW,
Washington, DC.

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

Contact at NASA Goddard: Bill Steigerwald, 301/286-5017.

Full text of the release:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1999/n99-038.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 July 2, 1999

ITEM 1 HUBBLE HERITAGE PICTURE: GLOBULAR CLUSTER -- SWARM

OF ANCIENT
STARS (REPLAY)

This stellar swarm is M80 (NGC 6093), one of the densest of the 147
known globular star clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. Located about
28,000 light-years from Earth, M80 contains hundreds of thousands of
stars, all held together by their mutual gravitational attraction.
Globular clusters are particularly useful for studying stellar
evolution, since all of the stars in the cluster have the same age
(about 15 billion years), but cover a range of stellar masses. Every
star visible in this image is either more highly evolved than, or in a
few rare cases more massive than, our own Sun. Especially obvious are
the bright red giants, which are stars similar to the Sun in mass that
are nearing the ends of their lives.

For further information, see:

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/26/index.html

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

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

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