Goddard Space Flight Center

This February to April, I ran a series of interviews highlighting the wide diversity of research which occurs at Goddard Space Flight Center, a NASA facility in Greenbelt, MD. I should have done this much earlier, and I apologize for my tardiness, but the Goddard scientists who were kind of enough to appear on this program were:

• Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, who talked about ongoing and future research on star formation and extrasolar planets,
• Dr. Aki Roberge, who talked about specific problems in planet formation,
• Dr. Mark Clampin, who discussed the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's successor to the Hubble Space Telescope,
• Dr. Gary Hinshaw, who talked about the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB),
• Dr. Tod Strohmayer on what you can learn from the X-ray emission of accreting neutron stars,
• Dr. Neil Gehrels on the Swift telescope and Gamma-Ray Bursts
• Dr. Julie McEnery on the recently launched Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST),
• Dr. Dave Thompson on the importance of multi-wavelength (radio to gamma-rays) observations in understanding the physics of the most energetic objects in the night sky, and
• Dr. Ann Hornschemier on Constellation-X, an idea for the generation of X-ray telescopes to succeed Chandra and XMM

Hope you enjoy. I personally think that these are some of the most interesting interviews I've done to date, and really encourage you to listen to them if the topics interest you - many of these astronomers are people who are at the top of the fields, and it was a pleasure for me to get to talk to them. Please leave any comments or questions you might have on the above web pages or down below. Thanks a lot for listening!