Awesomeness Round-up – 1/24/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- January 24, 2011
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Credit: NASA/GSFC/Debbie Mccallum It’s been a cold and wintery January here at NASA Goddard – not much accumulation yet (certainly nothing like last year’s snowpocalypse), but plenty of ice and sleet! We’re hearing predictions of another storm this week, so we’ll see how things look in a few days. A … Continue Reading →
Gearing up for AAS!
- By Sara Mitchell
- January 7, 2011
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Even though many folks here just returned from their holiday adventures, there’s not much time to recover from all of the fruitcake and eggnog. No, each January here begins with long lines at the poster printer. It’s time for the annual winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and … Continue Reading →
Happy holidays from Blueshift!
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 24, 2010
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NGC 2264: The Christmas Tree Nebula Photo credit: Weike Pan It’s been a busy 2010, and we’ve been excited to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at what’s going on here in astrophysics at Goddard… and beyond! It’s been a fun and interesting year, and bringing you the stories has also … Continue Reading →
Blueshift ponders… black holes – fact or fiction?
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 17, 2010
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If November can have Black Friday, we thought… what if December had Black Hole Friday? People have a lot of really interesting ideas about black holes. We can’t always blame them – black holes are quite mysterious and exciting objects, and scientists are curious to figure out all of their … Continue Reading →
Contest: Snowflake deadline extended!
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 15, 2010
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Here at Goddard, we just got our first snow of the year – just a dusting, but it’s definitely beginning to look and feel like winter! We’ve been excited to see what people have been coming up with for our space-themed snowflake and garland contest – and inspired enough to … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 12/13/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 13, 2010
- 1 Comment
Credit: Photo by Drew Noel One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s many feats of engineering will be its actuators – tiny mechanical motors on the back of its primary and secondary mirror segments that will help the telescope focus by changing the mirrors’ curvature. You can’t see the actuator … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 12/6/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 6, 2010
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Image credit: NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided bythe University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility. The biggest NASA news this week was the astrobiology press conference that had people buzzing about what the new discovery could be. The press release, when it was finally announced … Continue Reading →
Contest: The big 3-0-0-0!
- By Sara Mitchell
- November 19, 2010
- 2 Comments
Here at Blueshift, our goal is to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the stuff that’s going on here in the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA Goddard and to give you an insider’s view of what it’s like to work here. Mostly, we want to show you things that we … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 11/8/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- November 8, 2010
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This past week marked a major milestone in mankind’s exploration and understanding of comets – the EPOXI mission flew just 700 km from the nucleus of comet Hartley 2 and snapped some amazing images! This close pass will give researchers incredible new insight into the structure of comets. As we … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 11/1/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- November 1, 2010
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Last week was apparently a great week for astronomy – the shared file where Maggie and I gather all of the images, videos, and stories that we see all week was absolutely overflowing with possible content for today’s round-up! So we’ve distilled it to the best of the best, and … Continue Reading →
