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Exoplanets, Swiss Style

Hemmed in on all sides by the heavyweights of Western Europe lies a rather curious country. After spending more than three months in this quadralingual, dairy-obsessed country, I’ve developed a deep fondness for Switzerland. But even I was surprised to find that there’s more to Switzerland than neutrality, fondue and … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 7/12/10

Last week Goddard shipped a piece of new technology developed for the James Webb Space Telescope to the European Space Agency for integration with the Webb’s Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec). This new piece of tech are the microshutters, tiny little shutters as small as the width of a human hair. … Continue Reading →

Ancient Astronomy in Mexico

Ancient Astronomy in Mexico

Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to travel to Mexico. I visited several sites with ancient ruins. One of them was Chichen Itza. The night we were at Chichen Itza, we witnessed a lunar eclipse over it – I have no pics, unfortunately! Built sometime in the 7th century … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 7/5/10

Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa (uploaded by NASA Goddard Photo and Video) Cue the vuvuzelas – NASA Goes to the World Cup! See the games from a new perspective with a slideshow of images from Earth-observing satellites of the event sites and participating countries.

Megaliths? Megacool.

Megaliths? Megacool.

The annals of astronomy are riddled with names of some of the Greats of science history; Aristotle, Pythagoras, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein, just to name a few. But astronomy hasn’t always (if ever) fit nicely into the realm of pure scientific inquiry and quantitative fact. Ancient cultures across the world … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 6/28/10

Check out this gorgeous new zoom! It begins with a wide field view of the southern hemisphere sky, including both the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds and closes in on a star forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA/ESA, ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2, Akira Fujii and Eckhard … Continue Reading →

More travels in science…

I really enjoyed Faith’s tour of Bern and Einstein’s life there. If you enjoy cities with a rich scientific history, then Heidelberg, Germany may also be for you! Many famous scientists lived and worked there. Here are a few of the things you may want to check out if you … Continue Reading →

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Awesomeness Round-up – 6/21/10

It’s not often you get to see a satellite re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. Recently, a group that included astronomers from NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was able to watch the Hayabusa spacecraft do just that. The team viewed the spectacle from aboard a NASA DC-8, which was … Continue Reading →

"Annus Mirabilis"

“Annus Mirabilis”

Dear Blueshift readers, you don’t know me; let me introduce myself. My name is Faith, and I’m a part of the small herd of undergraduate interns that descend on Goddard Space Flight Center each summer. While most interns will be spending their summers participating in exciting research projects with Goddard … Continue Reading →

Goddard's First Building

Goddard’s First Building

Here at Blueshift, we like to give you a backstage pass to what’s going on here in the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA Goddard. We introduce you to our missions, scientists, discoveries, and more. But we also want to provide some context – what’s it like to work here? How … Continue Reading →

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