Contest: Let it snow…
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 1, 2010
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Snowflake made by Jenny Lee Fowler As you may or may not know, NASA and Etsy (the marketplace for all things crafty) recently teamed up to have a space-themed craft contest. The voting period for this contest was extended through December 6, so please go check out all the cool … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 11/29/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 29, 2010
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Two colliding spiral galaxies triggered a burst of star formation called a “starburst” (not like the candy). This one is the brightest ever seen away from the center of a galaxy merger. This image of these two galaxies (which are collectively known as II Zw 096) is a combination of … Continue Reading →
Happy Thanksgiving from Blueshift!
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 24, 2010
- 2 Comments
Ok, most of us at NASA aren’t astronauts and will be having normal Earth-food for Thanksgiving, but have you ever wondered what Thanksgiving is like for astronauts in space? Last year, astronauts Jeff Williams and Nicole Stott made a little video to show what they’d be eating for Thanksgiving on … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 11/22/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 22, 2010
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The Chandra X-ray satellite just found the youngest nearby black hole. At 30 years old, it’s the remnant of SN 1979C, a supernova in the galaxy M100 approximately 50 million light years from Earth. “If our interpretation is correct, this is the nearest example where the birth of a black … Continue Reading →
Contest: The big 3-0-0-0!
- By Sara Mitchell
- November 19, 2010
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Here at Blueshift, our goal is to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the stuff that’s going on here in the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA Goddard and to give you an insider’s view of what it’s like to work here. Mostly, we want to show you things that we … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 11/16/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 16, 2010
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This recently released image is basically a map of dark matter. It shows the distribution of the dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, which contains an amazing number of galaxies (about 1000) and trillions (!) of stars. Abell 1689 is 2.2 billion light-years from … Continue Reading →
Podcast: When Science Inspires Comedy
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 15, 2010
- 1 Comment
One of the bonuses of our set visit to The Big Bang Theory was that we got the chance to talk to co-creator and executive producer Bill Prady about how the show came to be, and how they get the science right in every episode. Since much of what we … Continue Reading →
But That’s Midnight to You
- By Kevin Boyce
- November 12, 2010
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It’s 1 PM, and I’m sampling the local cuisine, 7000 miles from home and 50 km from my second home outside Tokyo, hoping I can make it back before dark on my rented bicycle. Hi everybody, I’m new to Blueshift, but not new to Japan. I’ve been coming over to … Continue Reading →
NASA on the Big Bang Theory
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 10, 2010
- 9 Comments
As you might know, because we have mentioned it a whole bunch of times because we’re still excited by it, Bill Prady, the co-creator/producer of “The Big Bang Theory”, invited us out to visit the set of the show. We brought a whole bunch of NASA goodies with us to … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 11/8/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- November 8, 2010
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This past week marked a major milestone in mankind’s exploration and understanding of comets – the EPOXI mission flew just 700 km from the nucleus of comet Hartley 2 and snapped some amazing images! This close pass will give researchers incredible new insight into the structure of comets. As we … Continue Reading →
