Blueshift hits the road!
- By Sara Mitchell
- September 17, 2010
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Roadtrip! Well, actually, to be fair… we’re going on a planetrip. But that doesn’t have the same ring, does it? The Blueshift team got an offer to visit somewhere amazing, and we couldn’t refuse. We’re leaving next Tuesday on our grand adventure, and we’ve been quietly plotting to bring you … Continue Reading →
JWST @ NYC, and art mysteries solved!
- By Amber Straughn
- August 27, 2010
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I’ve lived in Maryland almost two years, just a short train ride away from New York City, and only recently ventured up to the Big Apple. It was for the World Science Festival, where I was volunteering at the full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope. The full-scale model … Continue Reading →
Clear Skies in La Palma
- By Koji Mukai
- August 25, 2010
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I’m a new blogger for Blueshift – I work for the Japanese-US Suzaku X-ray astronomy project here at Goddard, and have done education and outreach related works over the years. I used to do ground-based optical observations, so I decided to write about my visits to the international observatory on … Continue Reading →
Beijing’s Ancient Observatory
- By Maggie Masetti
- August 20, 2010
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I just got back from a trip to Beijing, China, which was a very interesting experience. Beijing seems to me to be a study in contrasts – ancient, yet very much rebuilt. Structures from the 15th century Ming Dynasty lasted for centuries, and some still exist today, yet later conflicts … Continue Reading →
Meteor Crater
- By Maggie Masetti
- August 13, 2010
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Faith recently blogged about the meteor strike that killed the dinosaurs. That may have been the Big One, but the Earth has gotten hit by meteors plenty of other times. Meteor Crater is east of Flagstaff in the Arizona desert. It’s nearly 3/4 of a mile across! It was created … Continue Reading →
How To Kill A Dinosaur From Space
- By Faith Tucker
- August 11, 2010
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Go ahead and take a moment to think back to those blissful years of childhood, all those mandatory naps and the impish grins that let you get away with anything. Ah, the good old days. Well, I’m willing to venture a guess that right about the time that the sand … Continue Reading →
Looking to Lani in Hawaii
- By Amber Straughn
- August 6, 2010
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Hello Blueshift readers! I’m a new blogger here, and want to briefly introduce myself. I’m a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow here at Goddard, which means that I spend most of my time studying the universe. Ok, maybe that’s too broad…more specifically, I’m an astronomer in the field of observational cosmology; … Continue Reading →
Pilgrimage to Greenwich
- By Jim Lochner
- July 31, 2010
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I’m Jim Lochner, and I lead the education and public outreach effort within the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA/GSFC. Maggie and Sara invited me to write a guest blog as part of the science travel series. Earlier this summer my wife and I took a vacation to London. One item … Continue Reading →
If you only see one petrified middle finger in your life…
- By Faith Tucker
- July 28, 2010
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To be honest, I’ve never really understood why people go to crazy lengths to get the autographs of celebrities. It’s just their name in squiggly, illegible handwriting, after all – not worth hours waiting in line, if you ask me. But you know what would be an exciting way to … Continue Reading →
Exoplanets, Swiss Style
- By Faith Tucker
- July 16, 2010
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Hemmed in on all sides by the heavyweights of Western Europe lies a rather curious country. After spending more than three months in this quadralingual, dairy-obsessed country, I’ve developed a deep fondness for Switzerland. But even I was surprised to find that there’s more to Switzerland than neutrality, fondue and … Continue Reading →
