I spent the morning in the science session devoted to galaxy morphologies – shapes- and environments and the lunch break with my press hat on listening to the latest results from Hubble (the telescope, not the astronomer; even a repair mission won’t help him now). There was lots of good stuff at both, but three [...]
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I’ve said again and again that the most exciting area of observational astronomy at the moment is the search for extrasolar planets. It’s incredible to think that in not much more than a decade we’ve moved from finding the first planet in a solar system other than our own to having several hundred in the [...]
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Astronomers do not easily get up for an 8am start. I’m sitting in the main meeting room and they’re can’t be more than 100 of the few thousand attendees here…
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Just arrived in Austin, Texas for the American Astronomical Society meeting, easily the largest conference I’ve been to since I started my ‘career’. The abstract book and program are each the size of a novel, and working out what to see is going to be interesting. I’ll be posting updates here, but you should also [...]
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