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Science Meets Art – “Poetry of Reality”

Posted in Dawkins, Sagan, art, music, science on February 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Symphony of Science has done it again… Wow. Yeah, what they said. Don’t forget to check out the first four: A Glorious Dawn, We Are All Connected, Our Place in the Cosmos, and The Unbroken Thread. (via Bad Astronomy)

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A silly little video I made…

Posted in education, ksc, moon, nasa, outreach, space, technology, videos on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

… with a not-so-little Saturn V. Starring Pluto Little Dippy, last semester’s mascot for Dark Skies, Bright Kids. We’re doing a kickoff party today for a new school, yay! If you don’t hear from me in a few days, it’s probably because I’ve been trampled by 80 over-enthusiastic kidlets. Wheeeee!

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Astro-Carnival and Astro-Molecules

Posted in astronomy, carnival, chemistry, space on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A Pikachu-tastic Carnival of Space is up at Astroblog. Travel down under to read about spaceflight, the solar system, galaxies, and more! Also, while you are browsing, check out this cool chart of the planets and moons of our solar system and the molecules that have been discovered in their atmospheres! This came up in [...]

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SDO and Space Weather

Posted in astronomy, paper, science, space, sun on February 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »

The Solar Dynamics Observatory launched last week for the thrilled scientists and engineers who have worked for years on this mission, some happy #SDOisGO TweetUp participants, and countless other space fans around the world. (The who? The wha? Oh, pretty!) LEGO SDO, designed by spectacular SpaceTweep John Knight SDO’s EVE instrument (Extreme-ultraviolet Variability Experiment) is [...]

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In the meantime…

Posted in astronomy, carnival, fun, podcasts, skeptic, space on February 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Back at work this week… going through the usual OMGGRADSCHOOLPANIC and so less time to write, for fun anyway. In the meantime, there’s a new Carnival of Space #141 up at Starry Critters. There’s more fun stuff on STS-130, SDO (of course), those cute little CubeSats and CubeLabs, and that’s just around the Earth! There [...]

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SDO is GO!!!!!

Posted in cool, picture, science, space, sun, videos on February 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »

Today, we could finally, honestly, say… SDO is GO!!! The Solar Dynamics Observatory launched today at 10:23am EST by an Atlas V from Kennedy Space Center. (The wha? The this! And this!) And we got to see this: A few people got this shot, but George is sitting right next to me! And there’s video [...]

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SDO Almost Ready to Go!

Posted in astronomy, science, space on February 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Disclaimer: This week/TweetUp has been super fun so far, and also super busy, so I’m more sleep deprived than normal. Any rambliness/wrongness besides what is normal… apologies in advance. As part of the Kennedy Space Center #SDOisGO TweetUp event, we attended the Guest Mission Briefing for the Solar Dynamics Observatory. (The wha? This!) Since I [...]

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LIFTOFF!

Posted in astronauts, personal, space on February 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Wow. STS-130 lifted off at 4:14AM on 8 February 2010. The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor was strapped in for a second launch attempt after the previous morning’s attempt had been scrubbed for a low cloud ceiling. A few miles away, on a much emptier and slightly warmer causeway, the space tweeps gathered once [...]

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Shuttle Launch Attempt… take one!

Posted in astronauts, space, twitter on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

So…. the launch of STS-130 was scrubbed last night. The crew of six was primed and ready to deliver the Tranquility module to the International Space Station, and the shuttle itself was all ready for liftoff! The weather, however, would not cooperate. We kept swinging between “go” and “no-go” due to a low cloud ceiling. [...]

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SDO: Learning to Live with our Sun

Posted in astronomy, carnival, science, space, sun, twitter on February 6, 2010 | 9 Comments »

I am such a happy girl right now. After some 13 hours in the car, (more for some!) George, Aleya, James and I made it to Titusville, Florida. We are here for the SDOisGO TweepUp event, and we’re catching the launch of STS-130 while we’re here! So what exactly is the SDO? SDO stands for [...]

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