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
Astronomers in Seattle
- By Maggie Masetti
- January 20, 2011
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There are many different meetings and conferences for professional astronomers, but one of the most widely attended is the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting. These are held twice a year, in June and January, though January is better attended. The location of the meeting changes each time, but every four … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 1/3/11
- By Maggie Masetti
- January 3, 2011
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Hello, and happy new year to all our readers/listeners! Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who entered our snowflake contest! We’ll announce the winners this week. Registration is going to open soon for a NASA tweet-up that will give an insider look at its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft and the … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 12/27/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 27, 2010
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You might be aware that last week on Earth there was a total lunar eclipse. That’s when the Moon passes into the shadow of the Earth; this is different that a solar eclipse, which is when the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun, temporarily obscuring the Sun. Another … 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 →
NASA on the Big Bang Theory
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 10, 2010
- 9 Comments
As you might know, because we have mentioned it a whole bunch of times because we’re still excited by it, Bill Prady, the co-creator/producer of “The Big Bang Theory”, invited us out to visit the set of the show. We brought a whole bunch of NASA goodies with us to … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 11/8/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- November 8, 2010
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This past week marked a major milestone in mankind’s exploration and understanding of comets – the EPOXI mission flew just 700 km from the nucleus of comet Hartley 2 and snapped some amazing images! This close pass will give researchers incredible new insight into the structure of comets. As we … Continue Reading →
What will the James Webb Space Telescope see?
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 3, 2010
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The James Webb Space Telescope, is, as you may know, the successor to Hubble. No, it won’t be exactly like Hubble, so… what kind of science will it actually do? Well, this series of videos about what Webb will see was just released today. There are actually 5 narrated videos … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 11/1/10
- By Sara Mitchell
- November 1, 2010
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Last week was apparently a great week for astronomy – the shared file where Maggie and I gather all of the images, videos, and stories that we see all week was absolutely overflowing with possible content for today’s round-up! So we’ve distilled it to the best of the best, and … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 10/25/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- October 25, 2010
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There’s been a trend lately to have webcams or live streams in some of NASA’s cleanrooms so that you guys can see flight hardware being built and tested. And every once in a while, something unexpected happens! (At about 10 seconds in, in this case…) You can see a new … Continue Reading →
