Chelen Johnson
Cosmic dIRt is examining the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products catalog to find the most unusual and faintest infrared excess objects serendipitously detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
While a lot of astronomy is done by computer, nothing compares to having a human look over the data.
How cool for the kids see a poster right next to theirs being presented by three university professors on one side and a graduate student on the other.
I think that the most surprising thing about it was how young everyone was! I absolutely did not expect that, maybe because the amateur community is so much older by comparison, and is mainly composed of retired people.
