Blueshift - October 6, 2015: Spontaneous Complexity
Jasmin Evans is an undergraduate student in astronomy and physics at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. She shadowed us for the week and ...
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Welcome to Blueshift, produced by the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Since 2007, Blueshift has been your "backstage pass" to science, missions and personnel here at Goddard, with a focus on the Universe beyond the solar system. We'll fill you in on groundbreaking discoveries, innovative technology, new missions, and other exciting stories. Visit us online at http://universe.nasa.gov/blueshift/ or follow us on Twitter or Facebook as NASABlueshift!
Blueshift - September 26, 2013: Finding Herschel
In July, we featured a guest post on our blog from astronomer Nick Howes about how he was able to image the Herschel observatory, which sat a million ...
Blueshift - September 9, 2013: "How We Learn," Part 4 of our interview with Dr. Phil Plait
This is the last part of our interview with Dr. Phil Plait, the so-called "Bad Astronomer." Phil is a scientist who now writes about science for the p...
Blueshift - June 26, 2013: "Go outside and look up!," Part 3 of our interview with Dr. Phil Plait
This is part three of four of our interview with Dr. Phil Plait, the so-called "Bad Astronomer." Phil is a scientist, writer, and specializes in debun...
Blueshift - May 29, 2013: Ring around the Exoplanet
A college friend of Maggie's, Dr. Eric Mamajek, discovered a cool potential exoplanet system that might also have a ring system - we reported on it la...
Blueshift - May 15, 2013: The Art of Space, Part 2
This is the second episode of our two-part interview with space artist Ron Miller. In this episode, Ron talks specifically about how he illustrates ex...
Blueshift - May 6, 2013: The Art of Space, Part 1
Blueshift recently interviewed space artist Ron Miller. Not only is he an amazingly talented illustrator, but he’s also the author, consultant, and fo...
Blueshift - April 25, 2013: Studying Simulated Stardust
Dust - on Earth, it's a nuisance. But in space, it's a valuable natural resource, a raw material essential to the formation of nearly any object imagi...
Blueshift - December 20, 2012: Hubble's Scientific Successor
As you might imagine, the James Webb Space Telescope is a pretty big deal here at NASA Goddard, because much of it is being assembled here. As a compa...
Blueshift - December 4, 2012: Science in a Nutshell, Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Phil Plait
As science educators, encouraging critical thinking and skepticism is something we think is really important. We interviewed the "Bad Astronomer," Dr....