The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) : An Observational Legacy for Studying Galaxy Evolution
Prof Marc Dickinson
The following was written during the final plenary talk of the first day at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in St Louis. I was going to post as we went along, but the wireless connection in the meeting room [...]
Posts made in June 2nd, 2008
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I’m sitting at the back of the second press conference of the day, desperately swapping between laptops to run the Astronomy Cast Live feed, catch up with press releases from the speakers and to write this.
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Currently, we’re listening to the announcement of the smallest extrasolar planet to date, a 3 Earth Mass planet orbiting a [...] -
One of the most intriguing of the morning press releases is now being described by Marc Seigar from the University of Arkansas, who has been trying to weigh the supermassive black holes that lurk at the centre of galaxies. Ideally, you’d do this by measuring the speed of the gas rotating around it, but that’s [...]
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Welcome to St Louis! Streaming from Astronomy Cast Live.
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Distracted this morning by driving past the St Louis arch, I’ve made it into the convention centre for the first full day of the American Astronomical Society meeting. Currently, I’m sitting in the press room next to a rapidly diminishing plate of delicious local breakfast food trying to work out what on Earth we’re going [...]
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