Awesomeness Round-up – 8/9/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- August 9, 2010
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Our big news this past week? Webb Gotchu! But if you’ve seen our coverage, and the other behind-the-scenes coverage at Geeked on Goddard… how about Bad Astronomy’s coverage of our coverage? Or perhaps the Oakland Skepticism Examiner’s coverage of Phil’s coverage of our coverage? Whew. I guess it would be … Continue Reading →
Webb Gotchu follow-up
- By Maggie Masetti
- August 9, 2010
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I’m really happy the new Hubble Gotchu segment from Jimmy Fallon got such a good reaction – again, it was so fun watching them film, and helping out behind-the-scenes. Also, it isn’t often that you see science presented in a way that is fun while not losing all of the, … Continue Reading →
Looking to Lani in Hawaii
- By Amber Straughn
- August 6, 2010
- 2 Comments
Hello Blueshift readers! I’m a new blogger here, and want to briefly introduce myself. I’m a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow here at Goddard, which means that I spend most of my time studying the universe. Ok, maybe that’s too broad…more specifically, I’m an astronomer in the field of observational cosmology; … Continue Reading →
Webb Gotchu!
- By Maggie Masetti
- August 3, 2010
- 12 Comments
If you’re a fan of late night TV, you might have caught the segment on Jimmy Fallon, where an “audience member” extols the virtues of the Hubble Space Telescope (i.e. “Need an image of the Orion Nebula? Hubble gotchu!”). There followed a whole series of segments (sadly now offline), including … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 8/2/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- August 2, 2010
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We like to kick off the week with a pretty picture! This is Webb’s mirrors, which are being cryo-tested at Marshall.
Pilgrimage to Greenwich
- By Jim Lochner
- July 31, 2010
- 2 Comments
I’m Jim Lochner, and I lead the education and public outreach effort within the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA/GSFC. Maggie and Sara invited me to write a guest blog as part of the science travel series. Earlier this summer my wife and I took a vacation to London. One item … Continue Reading →
If you only see one petrified middle finger in your life…
- By Faith Tucker
- July 28, 2010
- 3 Comments
To be honest, I’ve never really understood why people go to crazy lengths to get the autographs of celebrities. It’s just their name in squiggly, illegible handwriting, after all – not worth hours waiting in line, if you ask me. But you know what would be an exciting way to … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 7/26/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- July 26, 2010
- 1 Comment
This brand new set of photos shows one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments, all coated in gold. This isn’t a flight mirror, but what’s known as an engineering design unit (EDU). The real segments will look just like this, though. The real ones are currently being … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 7/19/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- July 19, 2010
- 3 Comments
Want a real behind-the-scenes look at the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror segments being prepared for cryo testing?
Citizen science – and I helped!
- By Sara Mitchell
- July 16, 2010
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My house started rumbling at 5:04 this morning. I was instantly awake. Was it thunder? A low-flying jet? It lasted a little too long for either of those scenarios – and it was really a sensation, not a noise. I was pretty sure we’d just experienced an earthquake here … Continue Reading →
