Awesomeness Round-Up – 8/29/2011
- By Faith Tucker
- August 29, 2011
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It’s been a rough week for the Mid-Atlantic region with the 1-2 punch of an earthquake and a hurricane rattling our region. Goddard got a good shake last Tuesday when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake prompted the center to close for the day. And over the weekend Hurricane Irene passed nearby, … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 8/8/2011
- By Faith Tucker
- August 9, 2011
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed new images that show some Martian slopes that change over the course of the Martian seasons. The scientists involved in the project think that best explanation for these seasonal changes would be the flow of salty water, much like our oceans. I wonder what … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 5/23/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- May 23, 2011
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Earlier this month, we posted about Dr. Amber Straughn and Dr. Jane Rigby being finalists for a TED talk. TED talks are very high profile, and usually of geek-tech interest. Because they were finalists, they get to give a 5 minute audition talk which will be webcast on Tuesday May, … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 3/28/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- March 28, 2011
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The center of our galaxy glows in this infrared image taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope. This data was originally part of a more complete view of the plane of the Milky Way, but then was given different contrast to better highlight the features of this region around the galactic … Continue Reading →
Happy Valentine’s Day!
- By Maggie Masetti
- February 14, 2011
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Here are a few pretty astronomical images that are Valentine themed! This image shows a ring… of black holes! Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/S.Rappaport et al, Optical: NASA/STScI This object is known as Arp 147 – it’s actually a pair of interacting galaxies, a spiral one on the right, that collided with … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 1/24/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- January 24, 2011
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Credit: NASA/GSFC/Debbie Mccallum It’s been a cold and wintery January here at NASA Goddard – not much accumulation yet (certainly nothing like last year’s snowpocalypse), but plenty of ice and sleet! We’re hearing predictions of another storm this week, so we’ll see how things look in a few days. A … 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 →
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 – 10/11/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- October 11, 2010
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There’s a time in nearly every satellite’s life where a decision has to be made – continue or game over? For NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, this question arose when the satellite reached the end of its onboard frozen hydrogen coolant. This wasn’t a surprise, but WISE used … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 10/4/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- October 4, 2010
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Credit: OPTIMUS PRIME image courtesy Hasbro Transformers, roll out! This NASA news headline caught our eye last week: NASA and OPTIMUS PRIME Collaborate to Educate Youth. NASA announced a video contest for students from third to eighth grade that will feature spinoffs from NASA technologies. There have been some pretty … Continue Reading →
