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Listening “Above the Sky”

Posted in astronomy, carnival, cool, music, space on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

While I was at the #SDOisGO tweetup, I got to meet a really cool, fun, and sweet musician who drove all the way through the snow down from Jersey to be there. Yes, I am talking about the lovely CraftLass! She has released her new album of folk pop, science and space songs, called “Above [...]

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Telescopes from Space!

Posted in astronauts, astronomy, carnival, nrao, space on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut currently living aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 23, loves sending back gorgeous pictures of the Earth and Moon via his Twitter feed, astro_soichi. This morning, I woke up to a lovely picture of the Atacama Desert, complete with a from-orbit view of the ALMA OSF: Click a [...]

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Spacey Carnival and the Ladies of Science

Posted in blogs, carnival, space on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This week’s carnival, number 146, is hosted by Simostronomy! I was particularly entertained by the submission from Alice’s AstroInfo, where she compares her own planetarium repair experiences to the last Hubble servicing mission. At the time of the STS-125 mission, I was in Green Bank climbing around on our antenna groundscreens again, doing repair work, [...]

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AstroJargon of the Week: Parsec

Posted in astronomy, carnival, jargon, space on March 15, 2010 | 9 Comments »

This week I thought I’d scale back from such a rich topic as AGN and tell you a little bit about the parsec. (In this case, I do not mean the podcast awards!) A parsec is a measure of distance. But, you are thinking, Nicole, don’t you astronomers already use the light year as a [...]

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And the winner is… SPACE!

Posted in astronomy, carnival, picture, space on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The ever-fabulous Ian O’Neill hosts this week’s Carnival of Space #144. There are lots of great astronomical highlights from this week, but I’m particularly in love with this gorgeous multi-wavelength image of NGC 1068: via Chandra, Hubble, and the Very Large Array Check it all out at Discovery News this week!

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I love the Carnival of Space

Posted in astronomy, carnival, random, space on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Carnival of Space #143 is up at Next Big Future! Get it? I love… 143? When I was in high school, before cell phones were popular, everyone (but me) had a beeper. We used silly little codes to each other… and 143 meant “I love you.” And my boyfriend’s name at the time was [...]

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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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