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Costume Contest

Contest: Our 2nd Annual Halloween Costume Contest

  • By admin
  • October 19, 2012
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Last year’s winner: Yuruany Arrieta as the Hubble Space Telescope That’s right, it’s back by popular demand! Send us a photo of your space, astronomy, physics, or science-based costume! We’ll choose our three favorites and award a NASA prize pack to the winners! Submit your photo to: blueshift @ bigbang … Continue Reading →


Costume Contest

Contest: Halloween Costume Contest Results

Thanks to everyone that entered our Halloween science costume contest – we were thrilled with the response! Here are our top three winners, who will each be receiving a prize pack of NASA goodies! Yuruany Arrieta as the Hubble Space Telescope:


What's This

What’s This? #2 – November 4, 2011

It’s time for another installment of What’s This? Check out the photo below and try to figure out what it is! Post your guesses as comments to this post, comment on our Facebook wall, or tweet them to us with the #whatsthis hashtag. Here’s your hint – it’s best to … Continue Reading →


Costume Contest

Contest: Halloween Costume Contest

NASA Blueshift is having a costume contest this year! That’s right – we were so inspired The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon dressing up as the Doppler Effect that we want to see your best geeky science costume! Send us a photo of your space, astronomy, physics, or science-based costume! We’ll … Continue Reading →


Snowflake Contest

Contest: Snowflake deadline extended!

  • By Sara Mitchell
  • December 15, 2010
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Here at Goddard, we just got our first snow of the year – just a dusting, but it’s definitely beginning to look and feel like winter!  We’ve been excited to see what people have been coming up with for our space-themed snowflake and garland contest – and inspired enough to … Continue Reading →


Awesomeness Round-up

Awesomeness Round-up – 12/6/10

  • By Sara Mitchell
  • December 6, 2010
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Image credit: NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided bythe University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility. The biggest NASA news this week was the astrobiology press conference that had people buzzing about what the new discovery could be. The press release, when it was finally announced … Continue Reading →


Contest: Let It Snow

Contest: Let it snow…

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 →


Contest: The big 3-0-0-0!

Contest: The big 3-0-0-0!

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 →


Contest: Win a WMAP beach ball

Contest: Win a WMAP beach ball – day 5!

Okay, this is it! We’ve been running contests all week to give you a chance to win an awesome prize pack of NASA goodies that includes an exclusive WMAP beach ball signed by Nobel Laureate John Mather! All of the contests, including this one, close tonight at 5PM ET. So … Continue Reading →


Contest: Win a WMAP beach ball

Contest: Win a WMAP beach ball – day 4!

There are only two days left to enter this week’s contests – including this one, there are four contests that you can enter until Friday at 5PM ET. Here’s your latest chance to win a prize pack of NASA stuff including a WMAP beach ball signed by Nobel Laureate John … Continue Reading →


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