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.
I did not anticipate how exhausted I’d get [at my first AAS meeting].
I found it most interesting to see the scientific process in action. Scientists were questioning scientists, sometimes fairly aggressively.
Everything [at the 2013 AAS] was new. The interesting piece was attending a press briefing and then comparing that to the scientist version.