Bowling Green , Ky. - A Western Kentucky University astronomer will participate in a NASA media teleconference with Hubble Space Telescope astronomers at noon CST Thursday (Nov. 16).

During the teleconference, WKU’s Louis-Gregory Strolger and three other astronomers will announce the discovery that dark energy has been an ever-present constituent of space for most of the universe’s history.
Other briefing participants are Adam Riess, astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; Mario Livio, senior astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute; and Sean Carroll, senior research associate, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

A NASA media advisory is available online at http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/nov/HQ_M06177_HST_dark_matter.html.
For information about participating in the teleconference, reporters must call Ray Villard at the Space Telescope Science Institute Press Office, at: 410-338-4514 (villard@stsci.edu) or Cheryl Gundy at 410-338-4707 (gundy@stsci.edu). Images and graphics about the research will be posted shortly before the start of the briefing at http://www.nasa.gov/hubble. Audio of the event will be available online at http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio.

To contact Dr. Strolger after the event, call (270) 745-6204 or email louis.strolger@wku.edu

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. The Institute is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Washington.
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