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Awesomeness Round-up

Awesomeness Round-up – 7/5/10

Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa (uploaded by NASA Goddard Photo and Video) Cue the vuvuzelas – NASA Goes to the World Cup! See the games from a new perspective with a slideshow of images from Earth-observing satellites of the event sites and participating countries.

Megaliths? Megacool.

Megaliths? Megacool.

The annals of astronomy are riddled with names of some of the Greats of science history; Aristotle, Pythagoras, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein, just to name a few. But astronomy hasn’t always (if ever) fit nicely into the realm of pure scientific inquiry and quantitative fact. Ancient cultures across the world … Continue Reading →

Awesomeness Round-up

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 →

"Annus Mirabilis"

“Annus Mirabilis”

Dear Blueshift readers, you don’t know me; let me introduce myself. My name is Faith, and I’m a part of the small herd of undergraduate interns that descend on Goddard Space Flight Center each summer. While most interns will be spending their summers participating in exciting research projects with Goddard … Continue Reading →

Goddard's First Building

Goddard’s First Building

Here at Blueshift, we like to give you a backstage pass to what’s going on here in the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA Goddard. We introduce you to our missions, scientists, discoveries, and more. But we also want to provide some context – what’s it like to work here? How … Continue Reading →

Awesomeness Round-up

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 →

Behind the Scenes at NASA

Behind the Scenes at NASA

Here at NASA Goddard, we have a big cleanroom complex. It used to be taken up by the Hubble repair mission team, but the James Webb Space Telescope is moving in now that the Hubble is all taken care of! I’m currently the webmaster of the Webb Telescope site, so … Continue Reading →

Awesomeness Round-up

Awesomeness Round-up – 6/7/10

We’re starting a new weekly feature wherein we round up the cool things floating around the internet that we thought might be interesting to you, our tech- and NASA-savvy audience. We’re planning on running this feature on Mondays, recapping all of the awesome things we saw… last week. The World … Continue Reading →

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