JWST @ SXSW, part 2
- By Maggie Masetti
- March 9, 2013
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Despite posting my blog pretty late last night, there are still a few things I want to share with you from Friday at South by Southwest. The NASA tent was busy til 10:30 PM last night – and would have been still going til midnight if the weather had cooperated … Continue Reading →
JWST @ SXSW
- By Maggie Masetti
- March 8, 2013
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The big event is here – South by Southwest. It’s a giant music, film, and tech festival that runs for 2 weeks in Austin, TX. And this year, NASA is at SXSW! Right next to the Interactive Festival, is a big NASA tent and… the full-scale model of the James … Continue Reading →
JWST is coming to South by Southwest!
- By Maggie Masetti
- March 4, 2013
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That’s right! During the South by Southwest Gaming Expo from March 8 to 10, 2013, Austin will be home to the full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope. The model does not often make appearances, and as it is the length of a tennis court and four stories tall, … Continue Reading →
Andromeda in the Infrared
- By Maggie Masetti
- February 11, 2013
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Check out this gorgeous new image of the Andromeda Galaxy taken by the European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory in the far-infrared. This new view shows cool lanes of forming stars in fine detail. Credit: ESA The news release says, Sensitive to the far-infrared light from cool dust mixed in … Continue Reading →
Farthest
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 18, 2012
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I was inspired to pick up where Alexe left off with her “est” blogs, and write about “Farthest,” because of some recent, cool, astronomical news. There was recently excitement over a Hubble Space Telescope discovery of seven primitive galaxies located over 13 billion light years away from us. The results … Continue Reading →
A Mirror Milestone, Part 4
- By Maggie Masetti
- December 11, 2012
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Here’s another update on the James Webb Space Telescope mirrors. In my last mirror blog I talked about the arrival of our flight secondary mirror, which is a pretty big deal, as there is only one on the telescope, and I hear it was a big challenge to manufacture. Along … Continue Reading →
Reddit Asked, John Mather Answered
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 29, 2012
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On Monday, November 26, 2012, Nobel Laureate and James Webb Space Telescope project scientist spent about an hour answering questions on Reddit. You can go read the full “Ask Me Anything” thread and the interesting discussion it provoked, but we’ve pulled out some of the questions he directly answered here … Continue Reading →
Ask John Mather Anything!
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 20, 2012
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Nobel Laureate and James Webb Space Telescope Project Scientist John Mather has answered questions on Twitter – and now he’s coming to Reddit on Monday, November 26, 2012 at 1pm EST. Reddit, a popular community where users vote on content they find interesting, has a sub-forum for interviews with volunteers … Continue Reading →
A Mirror Milestone, part 3
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 15, 2012
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I was lucky enough to get to witness the next mirror milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope. (Here are parts two and one.) I got word that our second shipment of mirrors were arriving at Goddard, which would consist of our flight secondary mirror and our 3rd flight primary … Continue Reading →
JWST + STEM Education = Awesome!
- By Maggie Masetti
- November 7, 2012
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The James Webb Space Telescope project is just entering its 3rd year of participation with the wonderful RealWorld-InWorld Engineering Design Challenge. It was originally created by teacher Sharon Bowers and it allows students to solve real world engineering design problems both in the classroom and in a virtual environment and … Continue Reading →
