 Good morning, it's 8 a.m. and I've just gotten out of bed to see a talk by Adrian Price-Wilin. One upshot of virtual conferences is you can literally just roll out of bed. Day two, let's do it. It turns out that many of these structures that we thought were actually distinct are not. They're interconnected. They're part of a larger response of the outer disk to perturbations. So hopefully from this visualization, you get a sense of the really dramatic vertical disturbances that Sagittarius can excite in the disk that can kick stars up to 10 or 15 kiloparsecs away from the midplane, at least in the outer parts of the disk. Gaia has given us an incredible leap in terms of precision of astrometric measurements and in terms of sample size over any past astrometric survey. So it's really hard to overstate how groundbreaking Gaia is and will continue to be. Tidally locked. So they have one side of the planet facing the day side or facing the star and then one side of the planet constantly facing away from the star. So how would you depict that? What kind of story could you tell? To the degree that we can tell a story that's motivated by science, we really want to aspire to do that. So based off of kind of the idea of lava ocean planet, this tidal locking, and also the idea that given the temperatures of the planet that there might be these rock silicates that Gaia was mentioning, in this case would actually vaporize into the sky forming clouds. And so how do you kind of depict this sort of glittery sand like structure in the sky? And so these were sort of the notional posters that were come together. And in the future, hopefully when we do see these planets, we can create visuals that still beautiful, but maybe less so of those surprises where Tiffany tells us, sorry, there's no surface. I should know this number. It's 105 parsecs, so that is 342 light years. So it's pretty, it's pretty nearby. It's like in our, it's like in our neighborhood. Thank you so much. Thank you for taking the time to talk. So on Thursday, the paper that I'm presenting on HS Hydra that I talked about yesterday, we're doing a press release or part of a press panel, which is really cool. And you should definitely check it out. It'll be live streaming on the WS YouTube channel. I'll put a, I'll put a link down below. I've had some press for my work, but I've never presented anything at the meetings that is press worthy. So this is something new and cool that I'm getting to do with the meeting this year. It's really fun to get to talk about your work and ask, they ask good questions about the story and about the data and about the people involved and you know, the people that's, I always bring it back to the people. Today I'm thinking a lot about presentation, about how we show what we do. This comes in lots of forms, data visualization. Adrienne's talk this morning, it was just so loaded with amazing data visualizations, the data from Gaia and from the legacy surveys. I just, I have always loved that picture of Palomar five and the title tales that stick out. It just tells such an amazing story about the dynamics of this globular cluster as it's going and plunging through the galaxy and getting ripped apart. And I don't work in that area much anymore, but that field has continued to really blossom. And as Adrienne said this morning, there's over 60 title tales known from various clusters and merging galaxies and space debris just floating around in the galactic halo. It's really, really cool. Every one of those tales tells a story about the galactic gravitational potential. And that's incredibly valuable for weighing the galaxy and measuring the mass and the mass profile of the galaxy. It's a wonderful story. And in my mind, all driven by that data visualization, by that graph, by that streak through this field of like snow, it's really cool. Then also hanging out in my kitchen and making scones, I went to an exhibitor webinar put on by NASA on the behind the scenes of NASA's travel bureau posters. And as the presenters were saying, they really sparked the imagination of the audience while also conveying the information. I mean, they're fanciful and kind of silly. Like we're not really going to go on a balloon ride over 55 Cancri-E. But look at this picture. Look at this story that it's telling. And like most importantly, look, look how there's people in the frame interacting with and viewing the planet, like enjoying the cosmos. It's incredibly engaging. And I think it's a really powerful outreach tool to talk about the science and why it's cool and why it means so much to those people who study it. Sharing the science is really important, practically speaking, because we need funding to do the science. But I think the connection between art and science is actually deeper than just these posters and the data visualizations and the cool graphs that we make and the stories that we tell. I think a lot of what we do as scientists is more closely related to what you might think of as art. And I say that with the utmost pride. Understanding the universe and the cosmos is like music. We probably don't have to do it to survive, but it's one of the things we do to make life worth living, to make the human experience rich and beautiful and textured because people cannot help but sing and make art and make music. And almost everybody goes outside and looks up and says, wow. And I think in a lot of ways, those two things are kind of the same. Every time I see these great visualizations, these art posters or an amazing graph or an amazing YouTube video explainer from Dr. Becky or David Kipping talking about how the universe works that's sparking people's understanding and creativity. I think that's what we're supposed to do. Discover, reflect and share. My name is Marybeth Leitchak. I am the director of strategic communications at the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope. We have an exhibit booth, zooms twice a day, special session zooms where we're presenting information about us. One webinar is tomorrow by our director of science operations and then on Thursday, Jennifer Marshall, our project scientist for our monocaspectroscopic explorer project is doing a webinar, Chasing Rainbows, the monocaspectroscopic explorer. Chasing Rainbows, I love that. Why do you spend so much effort communicating with the public and with other scientists? How come I see you at WS every single year? That's a really deep question. I actually gave a talk yesterday at our booth that we'll post soon where I talked about a lot of the outreach efforts that we did at CFHT. I run a program called Monacaus Scholars that provides telescope time to Hawaii public high school students on the monaca observatories collectively. That program I've been running for six years. It is my baby and this year we're struggling with it. One of my monacaus scholar students a couple of years ago comes up to me and she says afterward, she's like, you know, Miss, this was amazing. I was really into science until I was in fourth grade and then I stopped being good at it. And now I'm interested again. And I think to myself, what happened when you were nine? Who made you feel like science wasn't for you? And so I'm not looking for a million little astronomers. I'm looking for a million little kids that wonder and have that question about the universe and that really understand the scientific method. Found your YouTube channel here. So I'll make sure to put that link. I'll put the link down below. Just go check it out. You have a bunch of stuff out here now. You have like a lot of videos. We've done 53 videos. We've also done some live events. We did a really fabulous one with the Phosphine Venus team. And so regardless of where people fall on that spectrum, I would encourage people to watch it because rarely do you have an academic discussion about penguin poop. At least not amongst astronomers. Correct, correct. Please visit the exhibit hall booths. There are real human beings behind each of them that is sitting there wanting to talk to you about anything you want. Literally, I can't go an entire session without showing the non-stuffed planet that we have. His job was going to be when I traveled in 2020 to be kind of a proxy. Well, welcome, Grogu. I hope you have a good AAAS. All right, well, thank you so much, James, and have a good conference. You too, it was good to chat with you today. All right, that's it for me for day two at AAAS. And the rest of my day, I think, is get a quick bike ride and play with my kids for the rest of the afternoon. Tomorrow, so Wednesday, 2.40 to 3.10 Eastern time, we're going to do a virtual coffee break at our gather town. So astronomers at AAAS 237, come hang out with us and have some coffee. And if you're not at the meeting, just DM me on Twitter and I'll send you the link. See you there.