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Awesomeness Round-up – 10/18/10

  • By Sara Mitchell
  • October 18, 2010
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This week’s round-up will be a quick one – we just got back from attending the Blogworld & New Media Expo, and our brains are exploding with ideas for new things to do for Blueshift! But plenty of news-worthy things happened while we were gone, because astronomical discoveries wait for … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 10/11/10

  • By Sara Mitchell
  • October 11, 2010
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There’s a time in nearly every satellite’s life where a decision has to be made – continue or game over? For NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, this question arose when the satellite reached the end of its onboard frozen hydrogen coolant. This wasn’t a surprise, but WISE used … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 10/4/10

Credit: OPTIMUS PRIME image courtesy Hasbro Transformers, roll out! This NASA news headline caught our eye last week: NASA and OPTIMUS PRIME Collaborate to Educate Youth. NASA announced a video contest for students from third to eighth grade that will feature spinoffs from NASA technologies. There have been some pretty … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 9/20/10

Remember that squirrel that photobombed that couple’s vacation photo? Well, this is kind of like the astronomical equivalent! This image of dwarf galaxy PGC 39058 is dominated by this bright star that just happens to lie between us and the galaxy! The star, much dimmer when viewed from Earth, shines … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 9/13/10

Another milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope – the first primary mirror segment to be coated in gold (it’s a flight spare and engineering design unit) is undergoing cryo testing! Isn’t it pretty? I can’t wait to see what the whole mirror assembly will look like once it’s all … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 9/6/10

You might remember when Stephen Colbert “interviewed” to become an astronaut – we linked to the segments in one of our older link roundups. NASA Johnson just released a whole bunch of images of Colbert’s visit. Here he is on the C.O.L.B.E.R.T: (Speaking of things named for Colbert, we named … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 8/30/10

Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech What happens when planets form around a tightly orbiting binary star system? A cosmic smashup! As this particular type of binary stars get cozier, they cause a disturbance in the force… err, I mean, in their gravitational influences on their local planetary system. Things start colliding, and it’s … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 8/23/10

Do we have any science fiction fans out there? It seems like solar sails are a mainstay of spaceships in many books and movies (Avatar had a cool-looking ship with one). Are we one step closer to making this a reality? Meet NanoSail-D, which was designed and built by NASA. … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 8/16/10

Last week, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope team announced that they had spotted something that had never been seen before – gamma rays coming from a nova. Back in March, Japanese amateur astronomers saw a dramatic change in a star in Cygnus and informed the professional astronomy community. Swift took … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 8/9/10

Our big news this past week? Webb Gotchu! But if you’ve seen our coverage, and the other behind-the-scenes coverage at Geeked on Goddard… how about Bad Astronomy’s coverage of our coverage? Or perhaps the Oakland Skepticism Examiner’s coverage of Phil’s coverage of our coverage?  Whew. I guess it would be … Continue Reading →

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