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 →
Contest: And the winners are…
- By Maggie Masetti
- January 5, 2011
- 6 Comments
Thank you so much to everyone who entered our space-themed snowflake contest last month! It made our holidays more fun to open those emails and see what creative things you’d been snipping out of paper to share with us! After poring over the entries, and plenty of discussion and debate, … Continue Reading →
Happy 15th Anniversary to RXTE!
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 30, 2010
- 1 Comment
Today is the 15th anniversary of the launch of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)! With its future in jeopardy, we thought we’d like to celebrate its long and useful life. Did you know that over its productive lifetime, there have been more than 2000 RXTE-related articles in scientific journals … 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
- 3 Comments
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 →
The Mystery of Hanny’s Voorwerp
- By Koji Mukai
- December 10, 2010
- 1 Comment
Astronomical headlines are often written about an object that was observed recently. It could be about the brightest stellar flare ever seen, the most recently formed black hole, or a newly discovered eclipsing pulsar that allows a strict test of general relativity. But a few headlines are about the “dog … Continue Reading →
Blueshift is on Facebook!
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 3, 2010
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We know, we’re like the last ones – but we finally do have a Facebook! We’ll try not to duplicate our content too much with our Twitter feed – but obviously we’ll be announcing new posts and such in both places so we can get the word out to as … Continue Reading →
Contest: Let it snow…
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 1, 2010
- 3 Comments
Snowflake made by Jenny Lee Fowler As you may or may not know, NASA and Etsy (the marketplace for all things crafty) recently teamed up to have a space-themed craft contest. The voting period for this contest was extended through December 6, so please go check out all the cool … Continue Reading →
Happy Thanksgiving from Blueshift!
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 24, 2010
- 2 Comments
Ok, most of us at NASA aren’t astronauts and will be having normal Earth-food for Thanksgiving, but have you ever wondered what Thanksgiving is like for astronauts in space? Last year, astronauts Jeff Williams and Nicole Stott made a little video to show what they’d be eating for Thanksgiving on … Continue Reading →
