What’s This? #1 – September 30, 2011
- By Sara Mitchell
- September 30, 2011
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Introducing another new Blueshift series: What’s This? We’ll post a mysterious photo… and invite you to guess what it could be! Post your guesses as comments to this post, or tweet them to us with the #whatsthis hashtag. So without further ado – what’s this? We’ll give you one hint … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 9/26/2011
- By Sara Mitchell
- September 23, 2011
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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle In the hunt for extrasolar planets, we’re interested in finding Earth-like planets… but how about Tatooine-like planets? NASA’s Kepler satellite has discovered a planet that might look a little familiar to Star Wars fans. It’s the first planet scientists have seen that orbits two stars! The … Continue Reading →
Try It At Home: X-ray Data: Light curves, Spectra & Images Activity
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 23, 2011
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Here at the Astrophysics Science Division, we have a large group that studies X-ray astronomy. X-ray astronomy doesn’t get as much press as observations from telescopes like the Hubble, but nevertheless is a very valuable tool for understanding how the universe works. In this blog entry we’ll talk about how … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 9/22/2011
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 22, 2011
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Things have been busy here, so we’ve just got a quick round-up for you for this week! We did want to get it out today, though, because there is time sensitive info about a tweet-up opportunity within! What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth? If this movie … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 9/14/2011
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 14, 2011
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Bill Nye the Science Guy paid a visit to NASA Goddard on Thursday, September 9th, 2011, and while he was here he checked out some James Webb Space Telescope hardware and talked to some of the project’s scientists. There’s a great Flickr set of photos of his visit – but … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 9/7/2011
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 7, 2011
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We’ve had to say goodbye once again to our intern Faith – we will miss her and we hope you enjoyed her posts this summer! Before NASA interns leave for the summer, they often present their work. Here’s what July’s poster session looked like: Credit: NASA Goddard/Bill Hrybyk
Awesomeness Round-Up – 8/29/2011
- By Faith Tucker
- August 29, 2011
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It’s been a rough week for the Mid-Atlantic region with the 1-2 punch of an earthquake and a hurricane rattling our region. Goddard got a good shake last Tuesday when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake prompted the center to close for the day. And over the weekend Hurricane Irene passed nearby, … Continue Reading →
A Sight for Sore (Spaceflight) Eyes
- By Faith Tucker
- August 26, 2011
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Preserving the extraordinary moments of history for progeny is all well and good, but so often it’s exactly the unexpected nature of such moments that renders them so priceless – like the spontaneous kiss of a soldier safely returned from World War II or a casual lunch shared while sitting … Continue Reading →
A Visit to Palomar
- By Maggie Masetti
- August 24, 2011
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The last time I visited an observatory, it was an ancient Chinese one. This time I visited one a little closer to home. When I learned that I was going to be in Southern California (visiting my husband who was there for back-to-back science conferences), I knew I had to … Continue Reading →
Weekly Awesomeness Round-up – 8/22/2011
- By Faith Tucker
- August 22, 2011
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Hubble won our hearts by producing breathtaking images of galactic collisions, clusters of stars and supernova remnants (among many other things). Now the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble’s next generation successor, is planning to once more furnish an unprecedented look into the Universe around us. Take a look at this … Continue Reading →
