Don Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC              November 14, 1996
(Phone:  202/358-1547)

Tammy Jones
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone:  301/286-5566)

Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone:  410/338-4514)

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N96-76

NEW HUBBLE FINDINGS ON QUASARS PRESENTED AT BRIEFING NOV. 19

       Dramatic Hubble Space Telescope images, which show
that quasars live in a remarkable variety of galaxies, many
of which are violently colliding, will be presented at a
Space Science Update (SSU) on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 9 a.m.
EST.  Noted astronomers John Bahcall and Mike Disney will
present their significant new findings which suggest there
may be a variety of mechanisms causing quasars -- the
universe's most energetic objects -- to "turn on" and that
quasars may be relatively short lived phenomena which many
galaxies, including the Milky Way, experienced long ago.

       The SAU will be carried live on NASA Television, with
two-way question-and-answer capability for reporters
covering the event from participating NASA Centers.  NASA
Television is carried on Spacenet-2, transponder 5, channel
9, at 69 degrees West longitude, frequency 3880.0 MHz, audio
6.8 Megahertz.

       The 9 a.m. EST start time of the SSU is due to
coverage of the STS-80 Space Shuttle mission, scheduled to
launch at 2:53 p.m. EST Nov. 19.  Live coverage and launch
commentary on NASA TV will begin at the conclusion of the
SSU at 10 a.m. EST.  Audio of the SSU will be available on
an audio circuit via telephone by calling 407/867-1260.
During the SSU, pre-launch Shuttle activities will be
carried live on the audio circuits via telephone on 407/867-
1220 and 407/867-1240.

Panelists for the SSU will be:

   Dr. John Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
   Dr. Mike Disney, University of Wales, Cardiff
   Dr. Alex Filippenko, Center for Particle Physics, University of CA,
       Berkeley
   Dr. Bruce Margon, University of Washington, Seattle
   Dr. Stephen Maran, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, panel
       moderator.

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