Chelen Johnson
The Dust Mights team will be searching for Galactic sources in the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products catalog which have an excess amount of infrared light and whose distances are known from Gaia observations.
The experience has changed my understanding of astronomy and how it is done, but not of astronomers.
I have been in education for 4 decades and this one program has given me more confidence in teaching space science than any college training I ever did.
Over all, the NITARP experience was nothing I had ever experienced before as a teacher. The research was very interesting and challenging at the same time.
