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 →
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 →
Podcast: Swift Sees Andromeda in a New Light
- By Maggie Masetti
- September 16, 2009
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Click to listen! (6.3MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) There’s more to the universe than meets the eye – or at least our eyes, which can only detect the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. We can see just a small fraction of the light emitted by the … Continue Reading →
Podcast: The C.O.L.B.E.R.T. Episode
- By Sara Mitchell
- May 18, 2009
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Click to listen! (9MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) NASA is famous for its acronyms and technical jargon. If you’ve ever watched a rocket launch or a spacewalk, you’ve heard some of them. Blueshift is produced by the ASD EPO team at NASA GSFC – that is, the Astrophysics Science … Continue Reading →
Podcast: A NASA New Year!
- By Sara Mitchell
- January 2, 2008
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Click to listen! (9MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) Welcome to the December 2007 episode of Blueshift, from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. We’re celebrating the new year with a look at the typical life cycle of NASA missions and the typical day of our science staff. We’ll start with … Continue Reading →
Podcast: Life and Death
- By Sara Mitchell
- May 24, 2007
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Click to listen! (18MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) Welcome to the May 2007 episode of Blueshift, from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. We’ll discuss our search for Earth-like planets outside of our own Solar System. We’ll also look into gamma ray bursts, and how the Swift satellite team is … Continue Reading →
