Description: NSF’s Optical Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory launched on October 1, 2019. The American Astronomical Society meeting in Hawaii is the first one for this new organization. In this podcast, Rob Sparks talks about three press releases from the meeting that involved OIR Lab facilities.

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https://nationalastro.org/

https://nationalastro.org/news/neid-exoplanet-instrument-sees-first-light/

https://nationalastro.org/news/fast-radio-burst-observations-deepen-astronomical-mystery/

https://nationalastro.org/news/cosmic-bubbles-reveal-the-first-stars/

Short bio: Rob Sparks is a science education specialist in the EPO group at NOAO and works on the Galileoscope project (www.galileoscope.org), providing design, dissemination and professional development. He also pens a great blog at halfastro.wordpress.com.

 

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