Awesomeness Round-Up – 12/22/2011
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 22, 2011
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Credit: NASA/ESA/HubbleSite Looking for a space-themed way to say “Happy Holidays!” to your family and friends? How about some printable holiday cards with Hubble images? Every card features fabulous astronomical objects… and when you go to download a card, you’ll find links to articles about related Hubble discoveries! The ornaments … Continue Reading →
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 – 11/22/2011
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 22, 2011
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One of the newest additions to NASA Goddard is this giant structural steel frame that will be used to assemble the mirrors and instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope. “This milestone is important as it marks the transition to the integration and testing phase for the Webb telescope’s optical … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 11/16/2011
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 16, 2011
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We start with a new Hubble result. Using its near-infrared vision to peer 9 billion years back in time, the Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population of young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation. While dwarf galaxies are the most common type of galaxy in the universe, the … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 10/20/2011
- By Sara Mitchell
- October 20, 2011
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The full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope is currently at the Maryland Science Center at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. It will be there until October 26th, 2011. It really is an impressive sight (the satellite is about the size of a tennis court!), so if you have … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-Up – 10/3/2011
- By Maggie Masetti
- October 3, 2011
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There are gorgeous new shots of a full-scale test version of one layer of the James Webb Space Telescope’s tennis court-sized sunshield: Credit: NGAS Credit: NGAS There are two more on their Flickr.
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 – 7/11/11
- By Faith Tucker
- July 11, 2011
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[Sara’s note: You might notice that this week’s awesomeness round-up (which covers two whole weeks of news – that’s a lot of awesomeness in one place!) is missing one of the most awesome things that happened – the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. Fear not, that will get its own … Continue Reading →
Webb Goes Full Spectrum
- By Sara Mitchell
- May 12, 2011
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A couple of weeks ago, I got involved in a top secret recording project – two of our scientists were putting together an audition video for TED2012: Full Spectrum, and they needed someone to record the audio for their short clip. It was a whirlwind recording session, but when I … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 5/3/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- May 3, 2011
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Here at Blueshift, we’re big fans of increasing the awesome. In fact, it’s pretty much our top priority when we’re picking the stories that we want to share (and why we call this the “awesomeness round-up,” and not “some random stuff we found”). So we really loved this video by … Continue Reading →
