JWST + STEM Education = Awesome!
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 7, 2012
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The James Webb Space Telescope project is just entering its 3rd year of participation with the wonderful RealWorld-InWorld Engineering Design Challenge. It was originally created by teacher Sharon Bowers and it allows students to solve real world engineering design problems both in the classroom and in a virtual environment and … Continue Reading →
Astrophysical Activity Revisited
- By Sara Mitchell
- October 31, 2012
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It’s Halloween, and the Blueshift team wants to keep you in the holiday spirit – but with an astronomical twist. We’re running a costume contest, we posted a gallery of spooky astronomy, and now we want to share a blast from the past! We made this video three years ago, … Continue Reading →
Spooky Astronomy, part 3
- By Maggie Masetti
- October 26, 2012
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Another Halloween is upon us again and that means it’s time for some more… [spooky voice] Haunted Astronomical Imagery! But first I wanted to do a quick plug for our 2nd Annual Halloween Science Costume Contest!. Check out this blog for details on how to enter! Now, back to our … Continue Reading →
A Mirror Milestone, part 2
- By Maggie Masetti
- October 23, 2012
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I recently blogged about the first two flight primary mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope arriving at NASA Goddard. I have new pics to share, that show the mirror segments being inspected after their arrival. I really do think these golden mirrors are beautiful!
Contest: Our 2nd Annual Halloween Costume Contest
- By admin
- October 19, 2012
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Last year’s winner: Yuruany Arrieta as the Hubble Space Telescope That’s right, it’s back by popular demand! Send us a photo of your space, astronomy, physics, or science-based costume! We’ll choose our three favorites and award a NASA prize pack to the winners! Submit your photo to: blueshift @ bigbang … Continue Reading →
Brightest
- By Alexe Helmke
- October 16, 2012
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Welcome back to the -EST Blog! This is where we explore some of the astronomical superlatives that go the extra distance to make our universe so interesting. This time, I’ll be trying to tackle one of the brightest objects that we can see. We’re going to talk about Active Galactic … Continue Reading →
Podcast: NuStar: NASA’s Newest X-Ray Eyes
- By Sara Mitchell
- October 12, 2012
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Click to listen! (7.5MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) It’s an exciting experience for any space geek to watch a new satellite launch into orbit. Even through an online video feed, it’s thrilling to see something that Earthlings worked for years to create headed for its new home, … Continue Reading →
Want to see a talk by Nobel Laureate Dr. John Mather?
- By Maggie Masetti
- October 5, 2012
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Dr. John Mather is NASA’s resident Nobel Laureate and he’s currently a project scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope. If you’d like to learn more about JWST and why it is being engineered the way it is, then tune into his talk on Tuesday October 9th at 1pm EDT … Continue Reading →
A Scientist’s Approach to Science Fiction
- By Maggie Masetti
- October 3, 2012
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Meet Alan Smale – he’s currently the director of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (we know that’s a mouthful and just call it the HEASARC) which is a part of the Astrophysics Science Division here at NASA Goddard, and he also performs research on black holes. He … Continue Reading →
A Mirror Milestone
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 28, 2012
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The James Webb Space Telescope, the scientific successor to the Hubble, will be the most powerful space telescope yet! This is partly due to Webb’s enormous primary mirror, which will have 18 segments that will work together as one. The flight primary mirror segments were recently completed, which means they … Continue Reading →
