The American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle is in full swing, so the astronomy news is going to be flying this week! One of the first press releases is one I’ve been looking forward to for weeks. Several UVa and NRAO astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole in a dwarf galaxy! I actually heard aboutContinue reading “Fluffy Galaxy with Surprise Center”
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Two Weeks in the Quiet Zone…
Hello to those of you who haven’t given up on me ever posting here again! 🙂 I’m slowly getting back to a normal schedule after spending two weeks in Green Bank, West Virginia, in the Radio Quiet Zone. What’s that, you ask? Well, I wrote a two–parter all about radio astronomy’s own version of “lightContinue reading “Two Weeks in the Quiet Zone…”
Telescopes from Space!
Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut currently living aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 23, loves sending back gorgeous pictures of the Earth and Moon via his Twitter feed, astro_soichi. This morning, I woke up to a lovely picture of the Atacama Desert, complete with a from-orbit view of the ALMA OSF. Don’t yetContinue reading “Telescopes from Space!”
AstroJargon of the Week: HI
For this week’s (late) AstroJargon, I’d like to point out a bit of jargon I used in my Ada Lovelace post the other day. I talked all about HI (the letter “H” and the Roman numeral one) studies, and before posting, I quickly inserted “neutral hydrogen” as a definition. But why is that important anyway?Continue reading “AstroJargon of the Week: HI”
Astronomical Tales to be Told!
So, I just finished watching, and being very entertained by, “The Pluto Files,” a NOVA special by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Go watch it. Seriously! I’ll wait… There was a part where Clyde Tombaugh’s son was showing off some of his father’s homemade telescopes, including one that had an axle of a Buick. And I thought,Continue reading “Astronomical Tales to be Told!”
AAS Wrap-up: Personal Perspective and the Big Stories
What a crazy ride! I am finally recovered, mostly, from the big American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC, that occurred last week. What a ride! For me, the conference started off with a teaching workshop put on by the Center for Astronomy Education on interactive learning methods in “Astro 101.” As I start toContinue reading “AAS Wrap-up: Personal Perspective and the Big Stories”
News from the Radio Spectrum
The life of a grad student gets pretty crazy from time to time, but I’m excited about returning to blogging as things cool down a bit. As mentioned in my last post, I’ve got a list of fun things that have caught by attention recently, so I hope to churn those out in time! Today,Continue reading “News from the Radio Spectrum”
VLBA Sees a Beefier Milky Way
If you’ve been paying attention to the great astronomy news coming out of the AAS meeting in Long Beach, you would know that astronomers have more accurately determined the speed of rotation and size of the Milky Way Galaxy. It seems that now, our spiral home is as massive as our nearest neighbor, the AndromedaContinue reading “VLBA Sees a Beefier Milky Way”
URSI Update #1
Greetings all! I’ve been having a busy, fun, and stimulating time here at the Nat’l Radio Sciences Meeting of URSI in Boulder, CO. The mountains are gorgeous, the skies are clear, and the radio astronomy is diverse and exciting! I’ve been spending all my time in J commission, which is dedicated to the astronomy sideContinue reading “URSI Update #1”
Visiting the GBT
Will you be swinging through West Virginia any time soon? Maybe you are visiting family, taking a road trip, or hitting the slopes. Then don’t forget to visit the amazing Green Bank Observatory! It came to my attention through the NRAO‘s new twitter feed that the Washington Post recently had an article on visiting theContinue reading “Visiting the GBT”