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Webb Gotchu!

Webb Gotchu!

If you’re a fan of late night TV, you might have caught the segment on Jimmy Fallon, where an “audience member” extols the virtues of the Hubble Space Telescope (i.e. “Need an image of the Orion Nebula? Hubble gotchu!”). There followed a whole series of segments (sadly now offline), including … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 8/2/10

We like to kick off the week with a pretty picture! This is Webb’s mirrors, which are being cryo-tested at Marshall.

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Awesomeness Round-up – 7/26/10

This brand new set of photos shows one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments, all coated in gold. This isn’t a flight mirror, but what’s known as an engineering design unit (EDU). The real segments will look just like this, though. The real ones are currently being … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 7/19/10

Want a real behind-the-scenes look at the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror segments being prepared for cryo testing?

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Awesomeness Round-up – 7/12/10

Last week Goddard shipped a piece of new technology developed for the James Webb Space Telescope to the European Space Agency for integration with the Webb’s Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec). This new piece of tech are the microshutters, tiny little shutters as small as the width of a human hair. … Continue Reading →

Ancient Astronomy in Mexico

Ancient Astronomy in Mexico

Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to travel to Mexico. I visited several sites with ancient ruins. One of them was Chichen Itza. The night we were at Chichen Itza, we witnessed a lunar eclipse over it – I have no pics, unfortunately! Built sometime in the 7th century … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 6/28/10

Check out this gorgeous new zoom! It begins with a wide field view of the southern hemisphere sky, including both the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds and closes in on a star forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA/ESA, ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2, Akira Fujii and Eckhard … Continue Reading →

More travels in science…

I really enjoyed Faith’s tour of Bern and Einstein’s life there. If you enjoy cities with a rich scientific history, then Heidelberg, Germany may also be for you! Many famous scientists lived and worked there. Here are a few of the things you may want to check out if you … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 6/21/10

It’s not often you get to see a satellite re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. Recently, a group that included astronomers from NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was able to watch the Hayabusa spacecraft do just that. The team viewed the spectacle from aboard a NASA DC-8, which was … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 6/14/10

Here are some of the interesting things we’ve seen on the internet this week! And if you find stuff you think we would like – tweet it, comment about it, send it in! We may work with satellites, but we don’t have eyes everywhere. Watch the short film “Spacecraft Chamber … Continue Reading →

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