Exoplanets, X-ray astronomy, and extragalactic outbursts were discussed at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long Beach, California this week. Nearly 3,000 astronomers, educators and students and journalists attended some 2,000 sessions on outer world phenomena.
Topics at the American Astronomical Society Meeting
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NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuStar) catches black holes in a galaxy web. (SA/JPL-Caltech/DS)
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This infrared image from the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope shows the globular cluster 47 Tucanae in sharp detail, revealing millions of stars. (ESO/M.-R. Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey)
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In their search for habitable worlds, astronomers have started to consider exomoons -- satellites orbiting planets in distant solar systems -- which could be just as likely to support life as exoplanets. (R. Heller, AIP)
