Podcast: Swift Sees Andromeda in a New Light
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 16, 2009
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Click to listen! (6.3MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) There’s more to the universe than meets the eye – or at least our eyes, which can only detect the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. We can see just a small fraction of the light emitted by the … Continue Reading →
Podcast: The Science of Pretty Pictures
- By Maggie Masetti
- August 31, 2009
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Earlier this summer, Nobel Laureate Dr. John Mather told us that data are beautiful when they have meaning. Astronomical images communicate information about the way the Universe works and how we know what we know. But can a pretty picture be just as lovely even if you don’t know what … Continue Reading →
Podcast: Making Hubble’s Great Orion Mosaic
- By Maggie Masetti
- August 14, 2009
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Click to listen! (7.5MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) The Hubble Space Telescope is famous for its beautiful images of celestial objects – from planets in our own Solar System to far away galaxies. The Orion Nebula (known to astronomers as Messier object 42, or M42) is a … Continue Reading →
