Don Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC         May 24, 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:  N96-34

NEXT SPACE SCIENCE UPDATE FEATURES "CRAB NEBULA 
-- THE MOVIE" 

        Fascinating new motion images from NASA's Hubble 
Space Telescope showing glowing, eerie shifting patterns of 
light and sharp wisp-like features streaming away from the 
center of the Crab nebula at half the speed of light will be 
the topic of the next Space Science Update.  The briefing will 
be held at 2 p.m. EDT, on Thursday, May 30, from the NASA 
Headquarters Auditorium, 300 E St., S.W., Washington, DC.
    
    Entitled "Crab Nebula: The Movie," astronomers will 
explain that being able to see the rapidly changing and 
dynamic activity in the Crab reveal that these processes are 
similar to those in the centers of distant active galaxies and 
quasars -- processes which Hubble is now revealing in great 
detail for the first time.

        Panelists will be:

            *     Dr. Jeffrey Hester, Arizona State 
University,Tempe, AZ
            *     Dr. Paul Scowen, Arizona State University, 
Tempe, AZ
            *     Dr. Bruce Margon, University of Washington, 
Seattle
            *     Dr. Anne L. Kinney, Space Telescope Science 
Institute, Baltimore, MD
            *     Dr. Steve Maran, Goddard Space Flight 
Center, Greenbelt, MD 
 
      The Space Science Update will be carried live on NASA 
TV 
with two-way question-and-answer capability for reporters 
covering the event from participating NASA centers.  

       NASA Television is broadcast on Spacenet 2, transponder 
5, channel 9, C-Band, located at 69 degrees West longitude, 
with horizontal polarization.  Frequency will be on 3880.0 
megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.  Audio of the 
broadcast will be available on voice circuit from the Kennedy 
Space Center on 407/867-1260.

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