FOR RELEASE 11 JULY 2001 AT 1:00 PM EDT

STELLAR APOCALYPSE YIELDS FIRST EVIDENCE OF WATER-BEARING WORLDS
BEYOND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

Press Release Text: July 11, 2001 SWAS Press Release

Preprint: Discovery of water vapor around IRC+10216 as evidence for comets orbiting another star
(to appear in Nature): astro-ph/0107212 PDF format document

Image: IRC+10216 orbited by many bodies: Thumbnail + Caption,
1178x1484 JPEG image (753 KB), 1178x1484 TIFF image (5.2 MB), Figure Caption Text

Image: Kuiper Belt diagram: Thumbnail + Caption,
3300x2550 JPEG image (585 KB), 3300x2550 TIFF image (8.4 MB), Figure Caption Text

Image: SWAS in orbit: Thumbnail + Caption,
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Movie: The future of our Solar System: RedGiant6.mov (Quicktime) (10 MB), Movie Caption Text

The following images provided by Dr. Karen Meech (University of Hawaii)

Image: Comet Nucleus: Thumbnail + Caption,
4680x6240 JPEG image (241 KB), 4680x6240 TIFF image (87.6 MB), Figure Caption Text

Image: Comet Hale-Bopp April 9, 1997: Thumbnail + Caption,
510x612 JPEG image (46 KB), 510x612 TIFF image (93 MB), Figure Caption Text

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