Awesomeness Round-up – 2/7/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- February 7, 2011
- 2 Comments
Check out this amazingly cool orrery, created by the creative director, of Dynamic Diagrams, Piotr Kaczmarek. It shows the motion of the planets in our solar system. You can change it by setting the date, and you can speed it up or slow it down! You can even click on … Continue Reading →
Top Five Awesome Things About Webb Telescope
- By Maggie Masetti
- February 4, 2011
- 2 Comments
Thanks to NASA’s twitter feed (and my own not-so-top secret identity as @NASAWebbTelescp) I was alerted to this really cool YouTube video that talks about what is awesome about the James Webb Space Telescope. It was made by Hank Green as a part of vlogbrothers – which is a series … Continue Reading →
Blueshift ponders… where were you?
- By Maggie Masetti
- February 1, 2011
- 3 Comments
This Red Rover cartoon was recently posted on NASA.gov in honor of the astronauts that have lots their lives in the pursuit of space exploration, and we wanted to share it with our readers too. It’s a sad and thoughtful time of year for NASA, as we mark the anniversaries … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 1/31/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- January 31, 2011
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Credit: NASA/GSFC/Debbie Mccallum I know that I kicked off last week’s round-up with a snow picture, but look! We got another six inches! Here’s the real NASA connection, though… imagery of the storm from the MODIS instrument, aboard the Terra satellite. Credit: NASA Goddard/MODIS Rapid Response Team
Awesomeness Round-up – 1/24/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- January 24, 2011
- 2 Comments
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Debbie Mccallum It’s been a cold and wintery January here at NASA Goddard – not much accumulation yet (certainly nothing like last year’s snowpocalypse), but plenty of ice and sleet! We’re hearing predictions of another storm this week, so we’ll see how things look in a few days. A … Continue Reading →
Astronomers in Seattle
- By Maggie Masetti
- January 20, 2011
- 5 Comments
There are many different meetings and conferences for professional astronomers, but one of the most widely attended is the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting. These are held twice a year, in June and January, though January is better attended. The location of the meeting changes each time, but every four … Continue Reading →
Gearing up for AAS!
- By Sara Mitchell
- January 7, 2011
- 2 Comments
Even though many folks here just returned from their holiday adventures, there’s not much time to recover from all of the fruitcake and eggnog. No, each January here begins with long lines at the poster printer. It’s time for the annual winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and … Continue Reading →
Contest: And the winners are…
- By Maggie Masetti
- January 5, 2011
- 6 Comments
Thank you so much to everyone who entered our space-themed snowflake contest last month! It made our holidays more fun to open those emails and see what creative things you’d been snipping out of paper to share with us! After poring over the entries, and plenty of discussion and debate, … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 1/3/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- January 3, 2011
- 1 Comment
Hello, and happy new year to all our readers/listeners! Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who entered our snowflake contest! We’ll announce the winners this week. Registration is going to open soon for a NASA tweet-up that will give an insider look at its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft and the … Continue Reading →
Happy 15th Anniversary to RXTE!
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 30, 2010
- 1 Comment
Today is the 15th anniversary of the launch of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)! With its future in jeopardy, we thought we’d like to celebrate its long and useful life. Did you know that over its productive lifetime, there have been more than 2000 RXTE-related articles in scientific journals … Continue Reading →
