Doing Astronomy With Our Eyes Closed
- By Ira Thorpe
- November 16, 2015
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In space, no one can hear you scream. Any sci-fi buff worth their dilithium crystals knows why: sound requires a medium such as air or water in which to propagate and empty space is well, empty. But what if I told you that there are waves that can travel through … Continue Reading →
SpaceCrafts: Making a James Webb Space Telescope Costume
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 12, 2015
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Note: A childhood friend of mine came for a visit this summer with her science-obsessed seven-year-old, Oren. He was so taken with what he saw that he wanted a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) costume for Halloween. They did such a nice job with it (and the accompanying Ariane 5 … Continue Reading →
Jasmin’s Intern Blog: Day 4
- By Jasmin Evans
- November 3, 2015
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Jasmin shadowed Sara and Maggie for a week in July, learning about outreach, education, and communication at NASA. She wrote blogs about her experience here and we thought you’d all enjoy seeing our world through her eyes. You can find her first blog here, and Day 2 and Day 3 … Continue Reading →
Back to School with GRB 101
- By Barb Mattson
- October 30, 2015
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Up until a few years ago, gamma-ray bursts (or GRBs, for short) were arguably the biggest mystery in high-energy astronomy. Basically, gamma-ray bursts are brief, extremely bright bursts of gamma-rays (as the name implies). They appeared at random across the sky. But what are they? What causes that burst? And … Continue Reading →
Jasmin’s Intern Blog: Day 3
- By Jasmin Evans
- October 26, 2015
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Jasmin shadowed Sara and Maggie for a week in July, learning about outreach, education, and communication at NASA. She wrote blogs about her experience here and we thought you’d all enjoy seeing our world through her eyes. You can find her first blog here, and Day 2 here. – Maggie … Continue Reading →
The Chamber of Secrets
- By Maggie Masetti
- October 23, 2015
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Ok, this chamber isn’t really a secret, though maybe you didn’t know it existed? Here are a few clues as to its idenity. It is absolutely enormous. It was used during the Apollo era… and a Transformers ™ movie… Image Credit: NASA/JSC Image Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz & Bill Stafford. … … Continue Reading →
Jasmin’s Intern Blog: Day 2
- By Jasmin Evans
- October 20, 2015
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Jasmin shadowed Sara and Maggie for a week in July, learning about outreach, education, and communication at NASA. She wrote blogs about her experience here and we thought you’d all enjoy seeing our world through her eyes. You can find her first blog here. – Maggie & Sara This morning … Continue Reading →
Podcast: Spontaneous Complexity
- By Jasmin Evans
- October 6, 2015
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Click to listen! (17.9MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) Jasmin Evans is an undergrad in astronomy and physics at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. She shadowed us for the week and while she was here, she interviewed Dr. John Mather for our podcast. We let … Continue Reading →
Explore @ NASA Goddard
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 21, 2015
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We have a really special event, coming up – Explore @ NASA Goddard – where we are opening our gates to the public so they can come in and experience some of the science and tech we do here. So put Saturday, September 26, 2015 on your calendar! The event … Continue Reading →
OSIRIS-REx
- By Jasmin Evans
- August 13, 2015
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Between the planets Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt, a collection of hundreds of thousands of rocks, ranging in size from several hundred miles across to mere dust fragments, coming in all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes and sizes, from near perfect spheroids (in the case of some … Continue Reading →
