Whew! Talk about kicking the year off with a bang ... The American Astronomical Society’s annual meeting is underway in Long Beach, California, and we are awash in astronomy bulletins. We’re doing our best here at Astronomy.com to keep you informed of each major announcement.
Here’s a recap of some of the headlines to make it out of the AAS meeting so far:
Fermi Telescope unveils a dozen new pulsars
Brown dwarfs don't hang out with stars
NASA satellite reveals active galaxies are different near and far
Gamma-ray burst offers first peek at a young galaxy's star factory
Cassiopeia A comes alive across time and space
Milky Way a swifter spinner and more massive, new measurements show
Astronomy magazine Associate Editor Liz Kruesi is at the conference and sitting in on as many of the press conferences as she can. Liz already sent us her first report, “AAS meeting, day one.”
Stay tuned to Astronomy.com/News for all the major stories from AAS, and keep up with Liz’s insights at Astronomy.com/Blogs.
And, as always, we’ll package all the latest astronomy headlines in our free weekly e-mail newsletter.