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SpaceCrafts: Build your own JWST costume!

For the past couple of years, we’ve run a Halloween costume contest – and we’ve seen some pretty amazing costumes! We also occasionally get a peek at costumes (in-progress and finished) on Twitter or Facebook… and when the Schoellner family tweeted a shot of their JWST costume, we knew we … Continue Reading →

Why infrared? (exoplanet edition)

I’m not sure I’ve yet to meet a person who didn’t find the idea of planets around other stars fascinating. I’m no different. I grew up in an era where the only planets we knew about were the ones in our own solar system. When I went to college to … Continue Reading →

Special Guest Blog: Stunning Webb Model Transforms at NASA, Student Engineers Behind the Controls

  • By Maggie Masetti
  • October 17, 2013
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We have a guest blogger today! Laura Betz, a writer for the James Webb Space Telescope, wrote this article for us about the student-built 1/6 scale engineering model of JWST that was recently demoed at NASA Goddard. There are some moments of my life that I will never forget. Watching … Continue Reading →

Q&A with Women working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

  • By Maggie Masetti
  • September 17, 2013
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EDIT 10/18/13, Here is a transcript of the Reddit Q&A on JWST’s website. You can also read the original thread, which is posted below. EDIT 9/26/12, Here is the thread with the Q&A: http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1n6r5d/qa_with_women_working_on_nasas_james_webb_space/ Ever wonder what the job experience is like for women working on NASA’s flagship astronomy mission? … Continue Reading →

Why infrared? (earliest galaxies edition)

  • By Maggie Masetti
  • September 12, 2013
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This is the second blog in a series which asks the question, why infrared? Last time we looked at how infrared light could reveal baby stars hidden from visible-light observatories by opaque clouds of gas. In this blog I’m going to talk about (what else?) the James Webb Space Telescope … Continue Reading →

Why infrared? (nebula edition)

As someone who fields a lot of questions about the James Webb Space Telescope, a giant infrared observatory being built right now, I see a lot of “Why infrared?” questions. There are a lot of answers to this, but here’s one I think is particularly interesting and illustrative of why … Continue Reading →

Politóloga en la NASA (A Political Scientist at NASA)

[Sara’s note: We are incredibly excited to introduce a new guest blogger, Elvia Ramirez-Vidal. She’ll be contributing a few bilingual blog posts to Blueshift while she’s here for the summer. This is Blueshift’s first foray into another language… but hopefully not our last! A translation to English follows the Spanish … Continue Reading →

Finding Herschel

We have an extra-special guest blog today! Nick Howes of the Faulkes Telescope Project wrote a blog for us about about his recent mission to find and image a legendary European Telescope. There are only a few years to go before the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which … Continue Reading →

Next Gen Engineers and Scientists Study a Next Gen Telescope

  • By Maggie Masetti
  • June 10, 2013
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Another school year has come and gone – as has another RealWorld/InWorld (RWIW) Engineering Design Challenge, this year sponsored by the James Webb Space Telescope. I last wrote about this awesome student program in November – and since then we’ve had InWorld Q&A’s with James Webb Space Telescope project members, … Continue Reading →

JWST @ SXSW, part 3

Sorry for the delay with part 3 of my coverage of the James Webb Space Telescope at South by Southwest – things were super busy on Sunday – it was a long day starting with a NASA Social and ending with a Guinness World Record – and then it was … Continue Reading →

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