Awesomeness Round-Up – 4/20/2012
- By Sara Mitchell
- April 20, 2012
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Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Lennon and E. Sabbi (ESA/STScI), J. Anderson, S. E. de Mink, R. van der Marel, T. Sohn, and N. Walborn (STScI), N. Bastian (Excellence Cluster, Munich), L. Bedin (INAF, Padua), E. Bressert (ESO), P. Crowther (University of Sheffield), A. de Koter (University of Amsterdam), C. Evans … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 3/21/11
- By Sara Mitchell
- March 21, 2011
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Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls No, it didn’t wear a cape or shoot lasers, but Saturday’s “supermoon” was a bit bigger and brighter than most full Moons due to its slightly decreased distance from Earth. It was blocked by clouds in some areas, but if you got a clear view – wasn’t … 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 – 9/20/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 20, 2010
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Remember that squirrel that photobombed that couple’s vacation photo? Well, this is kind of like the astronomical equivalent! This image of dwarf galaxy PGC 39058 is dominated by this bright star that just happens to lie between us and the galaxy! The star, much dimmer when viewed from Earth, shines … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 9/13/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 13, 2010
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Another milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope – the first primary mirror segment to be coated in gold (it’s a flight spare and engineering design unit) is undergoing cryo testing! Isn’t it pretty? I can’t wait to see what the whole mirror assembly will look like once it’s all … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 8/23/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- August 23, 2010
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Do we have any science fiction fans out there? It seems like solar sails are a mainstay of spaceships in many books and movies (Avatar had a cool-looking ship with one). Are we one step closer to making this a reality? Meet NanoSail-D, which was designed and built by NASA. … Continue Reading →
Awesomeness Round-up – 7/12/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- July 12, 2010
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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 – 6/28/10
- By Maggie Masetti
- June 28, 2010
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Check out this gorgeous new zoom! It begins with a wide field view of the southern hemisphere sky, including both the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds and closes in on a star forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA/ESA, ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2, Akira Fujii and Eckhard … Continue Reading →