This is going to be another crazy wonderful week on Astronomy Cast Live. Just like we covered the American Astronomical Society meeting last January, this week we will be covering BOTH the launch of STS-123 and the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, TX. Making this possible are: Scott Miller (one of Pamela’s students […]

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

Yesterday afternoon I also got a chance to speak with Dr. Luisa Rebull, one of the scientists working with the Spitzer Space Telescope. She told me a little bit about Spitzer, and about the proposed Spitzer warm mission - the reason they are here at AAS.

One of the things I did yesterday while Fraser was working through his stack of press releases was talk to a bunch of people in the exhibit halls about their projects and the science they’re doing. The first interview I did was with Dr. Peter Stockman, a project scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope.
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The best part of AAS, I’m told, is the shwag. It’s a game to go through the exhibit hall and make sure you collect all the cool stuff being given away by vendors and exhibitors. There’s always posters and postcards and calendars. This year some of the really popular things are flashing pins from Google, […]