Awesomeness Round-up – 12/27/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 27, 2010
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You might be aware that last week on Earth there was a total lunar eclipse. That’s when the Moon passes into the shadow of the Earth; this is different that a solar eclipse, which is when the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun, temporarily obscuring the Sun. Another … Continue Reading →
Happy holidays from Blueshift!
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 24, 2010
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NGC 2264: The Christmas Tree Nebula Photo credit: Weike Pan It’s been a busy 2010, and we’ve been excited to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at what’s going on here in astrophysics at Goddard… and beyond! It’s been a fun and interesting year, and bringing you the stories has also … Continue Reading →
Contest: Just One Day Left!
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 21, 2010
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There’s just one more day left to enter our space-themed snowflake and garland contest! We have really cool prizes, some of which are “as seen on TV!” View the official rules and enter! Entries are due December 22, 2010 at 11:59PM EST
Awesomeness Round-up – 12/20/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 20, 2010
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It’s been very cold and windy here in Maryland lately – but not quite THIS cold. I guess the upside to extreme temperatures is that you can do experiments like this one, done at Mount Washington Observatory when it was nearly -35 degrees F. Do you know what happens when … Continue Reading →
Blueshift ponders… black holes – fact or fiction?
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 17, 2010
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If November can have Black Friday, we thought… what if December had Black Hole Friday? People have a lot of really interesting ideas about black holes. We can’t always blame them – black holes are quite mysterious and exciting objects, and scientists are curious to figure out all of their … Continue Reading →
Contest: Snowflake deadline extended!
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 15, 2010
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Here at Goddard, we just got our first snow of the year – just a dusting, but it’s definitely beginning to look and feel like winter! We’ve been excited to see what people have been coming up with for our space-themed snowflake and garland contest – and inspired enough to … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 12/13/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 13, 2010
- 1 Comment
Credit: Photo by Drew Noel One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s many feats of engineering will be its actuators – tiny mechanical motors on the back of its primary and secondary mirror segments that will help the telescope focus by changing the mirrors’ curvature. You can’t see the actuator … Continue Reading →
The Mystery of Hanny’s Voorwerp
- By Koji Mukai
- December 10, 2010
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Astronomical headlines are often written about an object that was observed recently. It could be about the brightest stellar flare ever seen, the most recently formed black hole, or a newly discovered eclipsing pulsar that allows a strict test of general relativity. But a few headlines are about the “dog … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 12/6/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 6, 2010
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Image credit: NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided bythe University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility. The biggest NASA news this week was the astrobiology press conference that had people buzzing about what the new discovery could be. The press release, when it was finally announced … Continue Reading →
Blueshift is on Facebook!
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 3, 2010
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We know, we’re like the last ones – but we finally do have a Facebook! We’ll try not to duplicate our content too much with our Twitter feed – but obviously we’ll be announcing new posts and such in both places so we can get the word out to as … Continue Reading →
