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More Neat News from HubbleWeek of June 7, 1999 This was a big week for astronomy news! Twice a year, the American Astronomical Society (AAS) holds a meeting. Usually a couple of thousand astronomers show up and discuss current findings, news, job information and the like. June 1999 was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the AAS, so it was a big meeting. The held it in Chicago, and this year unfortunately I could not attend (my grant travel funds were used up last year for a meeting in the Canary Islands, isn't that just too bad? ;-)But I was there in spirit. There were two press releases that I had a hand in, and one in which I have great interest and marginal involvement. Part of the idea of these Bitesize pages is to bring current news to people's attention, so this is a good opportunity to show you some interesting events in astronomy. I'll be brief, with just a line or two of explanation, and then just have a pointer to articles with more info. These articles may not be live after some time has passed since the websites are news sites; if the links die please let me know so I can update them! In all cases, you can go to the sites mentioned to get bigger and higher resolution images. Incidentally, all these news stories and many more can be found at the astronomy news websites linked from my Good News page.
For more info, take a poke at Goddard Space Flight Center's Public Affairs website. You'll find some images I did there too. Astronomy Now has an article too, with a graphic I made for this project (my name is on it... ah, fame! ;-).
While I am not directly involved with this project, I have exchanged email with the investigators about the object (I was the referee on a fine paper they wrote about Sher 25 last year). Since it is so much like 1987A (which I studied for my PhD) I am fascinated by Sher 25 and I hope to be involved with it or objects like it in the future. For more info about Sher 25, once again go to the Hubble website.
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