AAS 232 Press Conference: The Milky Way & Active Galactic Nuclei

232nd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Denver, CO Wednesday, 6 June 2018, 3:00 pm MDT Welcome Rick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer) Shocked Molecular Gas & the Origin of Cosmic Rays William Reach (SOFIA / Universities Space Research Association) Estimating the Mass of the Milky Way Using Satellite Galaxies Ekta Patel (Univ. of Arizona) More Mystery Objects Detected Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole Randall Campbell (W. M. Keck Observatory) & Anna Ciurlo (Univ. of California, Los Angeles) Discovering Galaxy Mergers Using Offset Quasars Scott Barrows (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)