Chelen Johnson
CM4Seyferts (Color-Magnitude for Seyferts): Using ultraviolet images from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite and optical images and spectra from the ground based Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to find a correlation between the color and luminosity of the hot gas around supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.
While a lot of astronomy is done by computer, nothing compares to having a human look over the data.
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.
Seeing and hearing about scientists at work, on different projects, brought to life the reality of scientists doing scientific work.
