January 18, 2019 updates Posted on January 18, 2019June 28, 2020 by Doug Loss House spending bill fires warning shot at JWST https://spacenews.com/house-spending-bill-fires-warning-shot-at-jwst/ A Wide Orbit Exoplanet OGLE-2012-BLG-0838Lb https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05466 HARPS-N radial velocities confirm the low densities of the Kepler-9 planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05471 Active Optics in Astonomy – Modeling of freeform deformable substrates – FIREBall and MESSIER https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05650 Spitzer transit follow-up of planet candidates from the K2 mission https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05855