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Isolated Elliptical Galaxies
Published on 15 Jan 2008 at 8:35 pm.
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While at the AAS conference last week, one of the posters that I looked at was being presented by Mike Fanelli, from nearby TCU, along with Pam Marcum (also at TCU), and a graduate student, Chris Fuse.
It has been a long standing debate about where isolated elliptical galaxies come from. For many years, it was […]
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Conference Etiquette
Published on 12 Jan 2008 at 8:11 pm.
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I am home now from the AAS Meeting. I have a backlog of interesting things to blog about that I’ll be getting through over the next week. But, I thought that I’d mention something about some conference etiquette.
First of all, though, I need to explain about these meetings. There are basically three […]
Flattened Stars
Published on 11 Jan 2008 at 1:26 pm.
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Yesterday I saw a poster by Ming Zhao, a graduate student at University of Michigan. He works with John Monnier. The poster was presenting CHARA interferometric data on the stars Rasalhague (Alpha Ophiuchi) and Alderamin (Alpha Cephei). This is similar to work that was released earlier this year on the star Altair. […]
Transient Astronomy
Published on 10 Jan 2008 at 10:23 am.
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When I first got started in astronomy, there was an old piece of paper thumbtacked to the wall next to the phone at the observatory at the university where I was getting my master’s degree. To my knowledge, no one ever called that number. It was the phone number for the IAU’s Central […]
Eye of Sauron
Published on 9 Jan 2008 at 10:39 pm.
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This is an infrared image of NGC 7293, also known as the Helix Nebula. It is an example of a planetary nebula. The term “planetary” does not mean that the nebula has anything at all to do with planets. Rather, it is a holdover from the terminology used by William Hershel, who […]
Crystals and Comet McNaught
Published on 9 Jan 2008 at 1:59 pm.
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One year ago, C/2006 P1 (Comet McNaught) was making all sorts of news as it put on a wonderful naked eye performance. At the time, though, I was at the AAS Meeting in Seattle, where it was rainy the whole time (except for when it snowed!). I finally got to see the comet, […]
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NGC 4622: An inconvenient galaxy
Published on 9 Jan 2008 at 12:07 am.
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I got the title for this posting from a poster presented by Gene Byrd, et al, at the AAS Meeting. A few years ago, he was studying the image seen above for the galaxy NGC 4622. A quick glance at the galaxy shows that it is a beautiful spiral galaxy. However, if […]
