My last interview at AAS was with Dr. Stephen Unwin, the deputy project scientist for the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM). He took the time to tell me a little bit about the mission, and how the telescope will work.

Continuing with the video series, I interviewed Peter Edmonds, a press scientist with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
He showed pictures of several objects:

Cornet Star Cluster
The Sombrero Galaxy
Abell 520
Supernova Remnant G292
NGC 4258
Eta Carina
The Eagle Nebula
Centaurus A

This will be my last post from the actual physical location of the American Astronomical Society meeting; I’ve preloaded this entry to go up when I’ll be on a plane winging it back to Boulder. I’ll have some wrap-up stuff later (oh, just you wait) but since I’m heading back, I want to leave you […]

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When I worked on Hubble data, lo these many years ago, some of the most fun […]

Fraser, Pamela and I have been whining remarking to each other that there is a huge amount of news coming from this meeting, and we’re having a heckuva time keeping up. Some is worth a long writeup, while others can probably be handled with a short post. Below are a few of the stories that […]

Yeah, you know Travis Rector: he makes pretty pictures. In fact, in my opinion, he made the prettiest picture of 2007! He also put together the image of Jupiter you see here.
He is a master of astronomical photography, and has the very enviable job of taking images off of various professional telescopes and creating […]

Yesterday was pretty busy for me - I edited a bunch of interviews and conducted a few more. One thing I did manage to do was stick my head in the two town hall meetings occuring at lunchtime.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) had its town hall meeting at the same time as the National […]

A few months back, I blogged about GalaxyZoo, a very cool project that lets anyone classify galaxies from a professional astronomical survey of the sky. They got thousands of people helping, and have classified a million galaxies.
Wow.
But they had a problem: people were finding significantly more counterclockwise-rotating spiral galaxies than clockwise. That’s a problem! […]

Space is a dangerous place. Stars explode, black holes gobble up matter… but some violent events are so huge they affect entire galaxies, mayhem on a scale so vast it numbs the mind.
Galaxies are island universes, cities of billions or even hundreds of billions of stars. Some galaxies, like our Milky Way, live pretty much […]

The picture above shows a cosmic bulls-eye of epic alignment. But before I can tell you about it, I have to tell you about how the dart got thrown.
One of the more amazing aspects of looking into deep, deep space is that the path there is tortured and twisted. Space itself can be distorted by […]