NASA will host a news teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 6, to announce discoveries from a sub-orbital rocket experiment that are redefining what we think of as galaxies.

The results are embargoed by the journal Science until 2:00 p.m. Nov. 6.

The briefing participants are:

-- Michael Garcia, program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington

-- James Bock, astronomer, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

-- Michael Zemcov, astronomer, Caltech and JPL

-- Karoline Gilbert, assistant astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland

For dial-in information, media representatives should e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to Felicia Chou at felicia.chou@nasa.gov by noon on Thursday.

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

Visuals will be posted at the start of the event at:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/

For more information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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