The Universe as seen from the perspective of an astronomical researcher, presenter and writer.
Credit : Justin Bilicki, the winner of the Union of Concerned Scientist’s Science Idol competition.
Hat Tip : Phil
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Jim Gunn from Princeton – one of the founders of the Sloan – is presenting the final conference summary. A large part of the design was influenced by the impact of people coming into astronomy from other parts of physics, doing things in the x-ray, the radio and the infrared and who were used to [...]
Read More...Another report from the SDSS conference is up on the Discovery blog, but I wanted to write about the penultimate talk, describing the next stage for the survey.
Sloan has been through two phases of operation already, and now SDSS-III is about to start, incorporating four separate surveys, each with a different mission. The first, [...]
If you’d like to know how to rule out intergalactic war on extremely large scales, then you’ll need to wander over to my Discovery blog.
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I’m in the Sunday morning session of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey conference (let it never be said that astronomers don’t work hard, even on weekends), and the first talk of the day is by Simon White of the Max Planck Institute in Garching, Germany.
Simon is usually worth listening to, and was introduced by [...]
While yesterday morning’s talks focused on the general population of stars in the Milky Way, the last two talks of the day told us a little of what can be learnt by looking at more unusual stars. David Lai of UC Santa Cruz took us through the results of his studies of some of the [...]
Read More...My first note from the SDSS conference in Chicago is up over on my Discovery blog, reporting on the discovery of a new companion to the Milky Way. There will be more posts there (and possibly) here later today and tomorrow.
Update : Second report is now up too.
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Lots to write about from my current trip (Hello from Chicago) but for now let me send you to this week’s all singing all dancing Carnival of Space.
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Having been gently prodded by Nereid in the comments to my previous post on the topic, I want to say a lot more about scientific reporting. The reason for the delay in this post, by the way, is probably obvious but the screenshot below – which shows the front page of CNN.com yesterday afternoon says [...]
Read More...It’s becoming increasingly difficult to know where one stands when writing about – or doing – science. Instead of waiting for the peer review process to take its course and for journals to print the received wisdom, life on the cutting edge is about debating papers released to astro-ph, a slightly policed archive of papers [...]
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