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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 [...]
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