Awesomeness Round-Up – 12/7/2011
- By Sara Mitchell
- December 6, 2011
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Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech While scientists have discovered hundreds of extrasolar planets over the past decade, finding Earth’s twin (an Earth-like planet in a similar orbit to ours around a Sun-like star) has been much more difficult. But a recent discovery by the Kepler mission has brought us one step closer – … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 11/10/2011
- By Sara Mitchell
- November 10, 2011
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Pulsars are fascinating stars. They’re neutron stars – objects so dense that a teaspoonful of their matter weighs as much as Mount Everest – and they emit periodic bursts of energy as they rotate, like lighthouse beacons in space. Scientists watch for the tell-tale pattern of emissions, which typically show … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 9/26/2011
- By Sara Mitchell
- September 23, 2011
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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle In the hunt for extrasolar planets, we’re interested in finding Earth-like planets… but how about Tatooine-like planets? NASA’s Kepler satellite has discovered a planet that might look a little familiar to Star Wars fans. It’s the first planet scientists have seen that orbits two stars! The … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 9/14/2011
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 14, 2011
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Bill Nye the Science Guy paid a visit to NASA Goddard on Thursday, September 9th, 2011, and while he was here he checked out some James Webb Space Telescope hardware and talked to some of the project’s scientists. There’s a great Flickr set of photos of his visit – but … Continue Reading →
Weekly Awesomeness Round-up – 8/22/2011
- By Faith Tucker
- August 22, 2011
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Hubble won our hearts by producing breathtaking images of galactic collisions, clusters of stars and supernova remnants (among many other things). Now the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble’s next generation successor, is planning to once more furnish an unprecedented look into the Universe around us. Take a look at this … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 8/16/2011
- By Faith Tucker
- August 16, 2011
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The Goddard Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory released some exciting news about the age-old question of origin of the chemical components necessary for life. According to Dr. Michael Callahan of Goddard, “People have been discovering components of DNA in meteorites since the 1960’s, but researchers were unsure whether they were really created … 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 – 7/26/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- July 26, 2011
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The James Webb Space Telescope has had a lot of recent milestones. All the primary mirror segments have been polished – and the secondary mirror has just been completed. You can read a NASA web feature all about what Webb’s secondary mirror does and why it’s important. (It’s quite large … Continue Reading →
Foodies at NASA
- By Maggie Masetti
- July 15, 2011
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Sara and I chatted with Erik Trinidad (and Moe Murdock) from Fancy Fast Food about their experience visiting NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. They got to see a lot of very cool stuff, like the James Webb Space Telescope’s ISIM structure (it will hold Webb’s instruments) spinning on the centrifuge. … Continue Reading →
Fancy Fast (Space) Food
- By Maggie Masetti
- July 12, 2011
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When Sara and I attended Blogworld last year, we met Erik Trinidad, the mastermind behind the food humor blog, Fancy Fast Food. Erik’s blog entries are about his experiments taking a fast food meal, and transforming it into something that looks like fancy cuisine. The three of us schemed and … Continue Reading →
