Briefing: Stars & Stellar Systems

At Tuesday morning’s press conference Arne Henden (AAVSO) described a new sky survey, Scott Engle (Villanova Univ.) reported new results on assessing planetary habitability around M dwarfs, and Ted Gull (NASA Goddard) and Manuel Bautista (Western Michigan Univ.) told how observations of Eta Carinae and laboratory studies of ionized gases are converging to solve longstanding astrophysical problems. AAS photo © 2012 Joson Images.

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