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  • Blog Post: High-energy astrophysics meeting: Future articles and the “Fermi bubbles”

    Sitting in all these science talks and speaking with the researchers at the meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is giving me some great ideas for future articles. High-energy astrophysics is a field that doesn’t always get a lot of media (and public...
  • Blog Post: High-energy astrophysics meeting: X-rays and more X-rays

    I’m at the 13th meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society for a few days. Some 400 astronomers have been updating one another on the state of their studies, and I’m here to listen in and learn about the current projects (plus I’ll receive...
  • Blog Post: On the road: January 2012 AAS meeting, Tuesday recap

    Today was another packed day — but that seems to be the norm at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting. The first invited talk echoed a topic that one of today’s press conferences covered: the status of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. After three years in orbit, the observatory...