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[podcast] Making Hubble’s Great Orion Mosaic
Click to listen! (7.5MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) The Hubble Space Telescope is famous for its beautiful images of celestial objects – from planets in our own Solar System to...
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[Blog] Weekly Awesomeness Round-up – 11/29/10
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD/Brown Grab your 3-D glasses – Hartley 2 is coming! This image works with red-blue 3-D glasses (and the STEREO mission has helpful instructions for making your own)...
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[Blog] Awesomeness Round-Up – 4/20/2012
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),...
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[Sara's blog] Awww! Cosmic baby pictures!
Protostars in Messier 78, as seen by multiple observatories Credit: NASA/ESA/ESO/JPL-Caltech/Max-Planck The side-by-side images above depict protostars found in Messier 78, a reflection nebula found...
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[Maggie's Blog] 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...
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[Maggie's blog] Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day from NASA Blueshift. We spotted this image go by on social media this morning and Rick Wiggins was kind enough to grant us permission to repost it. This is the Heart Nebula, or IC...
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Cosmic Fireworks
Happy Fourth of July to those of you that celebrate it! We couldn’t let the date slip by without presenting a little display of cosmic fireworks. We think you’ll find they’re much quieter than the...
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How Do We Know It: Supernova Remnant Age
I get a lot of inspiration for blog-topics from questions I get via email. Often they don’t have easy or straightforward answers (see this question on how many stars there are in the Milky Way). I was...
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