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Hubble Gotchu introduces JWST August 3, 2010

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The James Webb Space Telescope featured in last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon!

James Webb Does NYC June 1, 2010

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As part of the World Science Festival currently taking place in New York City, a full scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope is on display all week in the city’s Battery Park. The JWST YouTube channel had this funky time lapse video of the setting up. By the way, is it me or has the world gone nuts for time lapse videos in recent months?! Anyways, enjoy!

20 Years of Hubble April 24, 2010

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Source: Hubblesite.org. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hurrah! Although it’s clearly impossible, as I haven’t aged more than, oh, 10 years since then.

The folks at NASA and ESA have released a set of gorgeous new images and videos of the Carina Nebula, a region of active star formation in our Galaxy.

The European Hubble team have also taken the occasion to launch a rather nice looking new website, check it out here.

The same team are organising a competition to find the most artistic, funniest, weirdest, largest and smallest manifestations of Hubble and its images in popular culture – that’s a fun idea. Anyone can join the Flickr group and submit images, and the category winners get some cool prizes. Read more here.

Google joined in the celebration with a lovely doodle for the day:

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Beautiful Sun April 22, 2010

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First results from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory are in! In dynamic fashion, NASA have released a bunch of movies on YouTube of the satellite’s first observations, as well as great images. Enjoy.

Beautiful sun with the coronal mass ejection of 8 April 2010.

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MIRI crosses the pond (Thoughts on PR) March 19, 2010

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Gift-wrapping MIRI for our NASA colleagues

NASA issued a press release yesterday to announce that the engineering test model of the mid-infrared instrument for its next-generation space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, has arrived at Goddard. A picture is featured in the BBC’s Science & Technology news section today. As a member of the team that is in charge of testing MIRI prior to its integration with the telescope and launch, I’m glad to see the little one has arrived safely on US soil.

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