Awesomeness Round-Up – 6/27/11
- By Faith Tucker
- June 27, 2011
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Although it may be less well known than her nefarious box, Pandora’s Cluster has made a splash of its own as a team of scientists unraveled this galaxy cluster’s tangled history. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ITA/INAF/J. Merten et al. Lensing: NASA/STScI; NAOJ/Subaru; ESO/VLT Optical: NASA/STScI/R. Dupke It appears that this giant cluster … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 6/21/11
- By Faith Tucker
- June 21, 2011
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As Maggie mentioned in her intriguing post last week, things have been quite busy around here recently. So here is a bit of a catch-up edition of your weekly Awesomeness Round-Up. Enjoy! Historically, astronomy has always required a great deal of patience as astronomers spent long, cold nights at the … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 4/26/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- April 26, 2011
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Happy 21st anniversary, Hubble! To celebrate this milestone, the telescope was pointed at a lovely pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. The shape (which reminds some of a rose) is due to the gravitational tidal pull between the pair, which is distorting the disk of the larger galaxy. It’s … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 3/21/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- March 21, 2011
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Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls No, it didn’t wear a cape or shoot lasers, but Saturday’s “supermoon” was a bit bigger and brighter than most full Moons due to its slightly decreased distance from Earth. It was blocked by clouds in some areas, but if you got a clear view – wasn’t … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 2/22/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- February 22, 2011
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Due to the one-two punch of a federal holiday and a bit of wintry weather that caused NASA Goddard to open a few hours late today, here’s a belated awesomeness round-up! Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Bill Hrybyk One year ago, I had just returned to Goddard from an epic adventure … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 1/31/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- January 31, 2011
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Credit: NASA/GSFC/Debbie Mccallum I know that I kicked off last week’s round-up with a snow picture, but look! We got another six inches! Here’s the real NASA connection, though… imagery of the storm from the MODIS instrument, aboard the Terra satellite. Credit: NASA Goddard/MODIS Rapid Response Team
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 →
Awesomeness Round-up – 12/13/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 13, 2010
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Credit: Photo by Drew Noel One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s many feats of engineering will be its actuators – tiny mechanical motors on the back of its primary and secondary mirror segments that will help the telescope focus by changing the mirrors’ curvature. You can’t see the actuator … Continue Reading →
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 →
Awesomeness Round-up – 11/29/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 29, 2010
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Two colliding spiral galaxies triggered a burst of star formation called a “starburst” (not like the candy). This one is the brightest ever seen away from the center of a galaxy merger. This image of these two galaxies (which are collectively known as II Zw 096) is a combination of … Continue Reading →
