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Awesomeness Round-up – 7/26/10

This brand new set of photos shows one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments, all coated in gold. This isn’t a flight mirror, but what’s known as an engineering design unit (EDU). The real segments will look just like this, though. The real ones are currently being … Continue Reading →

Awesomeness Round-up

Awesomeness Round-up – 7/19/10

Want a real behind-the-scenes look at the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror segments being prepared for cryo testing?

Awesomeness Round-up

Awesomeness Round-up – 7/12/10

Last week Goddard shipped a piece of new technology developed for the James Webb Space Telescope to the European Space Agency for integration with the Webb’s Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec). This new piece of tech are the microshutters, tiny little shutters as small as the width of a human hair. … Continue Reading →

Awesomeness Round-up

Awesomeness Round-up – 6/14/10

Here are some of the interesting things we’ve seen on the internet this week! And if you find stuff you think we would like – tweet it, comment about it, send it in! We may work with satellites, but we don’t have eyes everywhere. Watch the short film “Spacecraft Chamber … Continue Reading →

Behind the Scenes at NASA

Behind the Scenes at NASA

Here at NASA Goddard, we have a big cleanroom complex. It used to be taken up by the Hubble repair mission team, but the James Webb Space Telescope is moving in now that the Hubble is all taken care of! I’m currently the webmaster of the Webb Telescope site, so … Continue Reading →

Awesomeness Round-up

Awesomeness Round-up – 6/7/10

We’re starting a new weekly feature wherein we round up the cool things floating around the internet that we thought might be interesting to you, our tech- and NASA-savvy audience. We’re planning on running this feature on Mondays, recapping all of the awesome things we saw… last week. The World … Continue Reading →

Podcast: A Meeting of the Minds

Podcast: A Meeting of the Minds

Click to listen! (6.3MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) Professional meetings are a part of the lives of most scientists – but what actually goes on at one of these? It’s not just sitting in meetings and listening to talks!  These meetings offer an opportunity to share exciting … Continue Reading →

Podcast: Making Data Beautiful

To kick off our special summer series about data, we interviewed 2006 Nobel Laureate John Mather about the importance of imagery in communicating science and sharing data with the public.  More than just “pretty pictures,” data can be used to tell a story and explain the mysteries of the cosmos. … Continue Reading →

Inventing 101

Inventing 101

Some people just have a knack for building things, or taking things apart to make them work better. My grandfather is one of these people – he looks at the stuff he uses everyday and tinkers with it to make it better suit his needs. As a kid, I laughed … Continue Reading →

Inventing 101

Podcast: Professional Tinkering

Click to listen! (9MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) In astrophysics, the development of innovative technology is crucial to answering scientific questions about the Universe around us. The types of technology invented are determined, at least in part, by the answers we are seeking. At the heart of this science-technology … Continue Reading →

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