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, […]

Centaurus A is a nearby galaxy which is bit of mess. Actually, it’s an incredible mess. 12 million light years away, it looks at first like an elliptical galaxy, an unassuming football of billions of stars. A closer look reveals a dark dust lane across the middle, which is our first hint things […]

If you want to understand what’s going on in the sky, there are lots of ways to do it. You can, for example, look around for specific examples of objects — supernovae, black holes, spiral galaxies — and examine them. Or, you can take a survey of the sky, looking everywhere, and take a census […]

The LSST held a quick press briefing outside their booth today. Mostly they wanted to talk about the recent $30 million donation from Google and Microsoft, but it was a small enough group that questions could pull it any which way.
LSST is going to be very exciting. By the time the survey is over, every […]