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Podcast: We’re Back!
Click to listen! (7MB MP3, right-click to save) Transcript (Text, PDF) After taking some time off to seek listener feedback and consider the future direction of our podcast, Blueshift is back with a...
View ArticleA New Beginning
If you’ve visited Blueshift before, you’re probably wondering… hey, where have you been for the last year? We released six podcasts in 2007 but got a lot of mixed feedback from listeners about the...
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Awesomeness Round-up – 7/19/10
Want a real behind-the-scenes look at the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror segments being prepared for cryo testing? We’ve mentioned that the box that will contain Webb’s instruments (called the...
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Awesomeness Round-up – 11/8/10
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!...
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Awesomeness Round-up – 12/20/10
It’s been very cold and windy here in Maryland lately – but not quite THIS cold. I guess the upside to extreme temperatures is that you can do experiments like this one, done at Mount Washington...
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Awesomeness Round-up – 4/11/11
Sorry we were slow with posts last week – we were swamped with preparations for the government shut-down that (thankfully) never happened. We’ve got a bunch of things in the works, but we’ll start with...
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Awesomeness Round-Up – 6/21/11
As Maggie mentioned in her intriguing post last week, things have been quite busy around here recently. So here is a bit of a catch-up edition of your weekly Awesomeness Round-Up. Enjoy! Historically,...
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Awesomeness Round-Up – 12/7/2011
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech While scientists have discovered hundreds of extrasolar planets over the past decade, finding Earth’s twin (an Earth-like planet in a similar orbit to ours around a...
View ArticleBringing Astrophysics to YouTube: An Interview with Jessica Few
Earlier this year, Blueshift contributor Koji Mukai sent us a link to a series of astronomy videos produced by Jessica Few, a student at Durham University in the UK. We loved the videos, and knew we...
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The Nexus of Art and Science, Part 2
We recently blogged about students from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) making animations inspired by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another student, Turner Gillespie, also from...
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Happy Birthday, Swift!
This is our third Happy Birthday post for a satellite in the last year or so – which is pretty cool actually, to have satellites that are hitting significant milestones and have had the longevity to...
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Back to School with GRB 101
Up until a few years ago, gamma-ray bursts (or GRBs, for short) were arguably the biggest mystery in high-energy astronomy. Basically, gamma-ray bursts are brief, extremely bright bursts of gamma-rays...
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