For those who don’t remember him, Artie Aardvark is my research group’s mascot. He’s a curious fellow who likes to tag along to astronomical conferences and the like, so it was only natural that he tagged along with me last week. I’ll let him tell you all about it!
Last week was super-duper exciting, as Yvette finally took me on a new adventure! We were off to Lommel, Belgium for the annual Dutch astronomers’ conference which is known as the NAC. I was a little confused on the train ride over why were going to Belgium for a Dutch astronomers’ conference, but the astronomers told me that northern Belgium is an area called Flanders where they speak Dutch with a funny accent. (I guess some of them claim Flemish is a separate language but don’t ask me for details- I’m an aardvark, not a language expert!) This year they were organizing the conference, so we took a train and bus to Lommel just across the border. Continue reading
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