Awesomeness Round-Up – 10/31/2011
- By Sara Mitchell
- October 31, 2011
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Sara’s note: Don’t forget to enter our costume contest! You’ve still got a few more days to snap a pic of your geeky, science-y costume… and win NASA goodies! More details at the link above. Credit: David St. Louis It’s been a busy couple of weeks in astronomy – big … Continue Reading →
Spooky Astronomy, part 2
- By Maggie Masetti
- October 31, 2011
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Another Halloween is upon us and that means it’s time for some… [spooky voice] Haunted Astronomical Imagery! Consider, if you will, the Helix Nebula… Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO) ….which hides a zombie at its core, visible when the … Continue Reading →
Hunting for Hints of Planets
- By Sara Mitchell
- October 26, 2011
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Last week, about 120 exoplanet-hunters from as far away as Japan and the Netherlands descended upon NASA Goddard for the Signposts of Planets conference, an opportunity for scientists to discuss cutting-edge research on the detection and study of extrasolar planets in the debris disks around stars. The three-day event included … Continue Reading →
Contest: Halloween Costume Contest
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- October 24, 2011
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NASA Blueshift is having a costume contest this year! That’s right – we were so inspired The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon dressing up as the Doppler Effect that we want to see your best geeky science costume! Send us a photo of your space, astronomy, physics, or science-based costume! We’ll … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 10/20/2011
- By Sara Mitchell
- October 20, 2011
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The full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope is currently at the Maryland Science Center at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. It will be there until October 26th, 2011. It really is an impressive sight (the satellite is about the size of a tennis court!), so if you have … Continue Reading →
A Fond Farewell to ROSAT
- By Maggie Masetti
- October 17, 2011
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It’s time for me to be nostalgic about another satellite. Last time it was the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer which I really started my career in websites/education/outreach on. This time, it’s the Röntgensatellit, or ROSAT, a German-led X-ray telescope. When I was an intern here, my first job was to … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 10/11/2011
- By Maggie Masetti
- October 11, 2011
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This YouTube vid features recordings made by the U.S. Air Force Space Surveillance Radar in Texas during the Perseid meteor shower. How does this work? Head over to Phil Plait’s blog for an explanation.
Try It At Home: Turning Light Into Sound
- By Sara Mitchell
- October 5, 2011
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Ever had a remote control that didn’t seem to work, and wondered if it was the remote control itself or just dead batteries? Well, thanks to the power of the electromagnetic spectrum (the fancy scientific name for all wavelengths of light, including ones our eyes can’t see), you can build … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 10/3/2011
- By Maggie Masetti
- October 3, 2011
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There are gorgeous new shots of a full-scale test version of one layer of the James Webb Space Telescope’s tennis court-sized sunshield: Credit: NGAS Credit: NGAS There are two more on their Flickr.
What’s This? #1 – The big reveal!
- By Sara Mitchell
- October 3, 2011
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Last Friday, we posted the first in our new series, What’s This? We put up a mysterious photograph, and asked our readers to make their best guesses about the content of the picture. We had a lot of fantastic guesses, in the comments and on Twitter! Here’s the photo, once … Continue Reading →
