Chris Lintott’s Universe

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 to be doing today.

The first of the press conferences is on galaxies in ten minutes or so, and the day includes announcements on extrasolar planets, talks about everyone’s favourite use of the Spitzer Space Telescope, the GOODS survey and much other good stuff. I’ll be writing here, but also keep an eye on the Astronomy Cast Live site where we’re compiling all of our coverage.

More shortly…

Try to keep up with everything that’s happening

Yes, there is ice just beneath the surface at the Phoenix landing site, and they’ve touched the ground.

The shuttle is on its way back to the Space Station.

The launch of GLAST is just a few days away.

We got time on Hubble to follow up a Galaxy Zoo object, the Voorwerp.

And if that wasn’t enough, I’m at the AAS meeting in St Louis and full written, audio and video reports will start appearing on Astronomy Cast Live and on this site. Come along for the ride.