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NASA Tweetup Here I Come
I still remember the moment I found out I was selected to attend the GRAIL launch NASA Tweetup. While driving home from the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, I found myself getting a little tired so I decided to stop off and grab a shot of sugar via a strawberry milkshake. As I [...]
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos gets a Reboot with Surprise Players Involved
It's been over thirty years since the original airing of Carl Sagan's famous Cosmos miniseries. In a recent announcement, Fox revealed that it will be producing an update version with Neil deGrasse Tyson as its new host.
LEGO Minifigs are Heading To and Into Jupiter
Tomorrow marks the first launch window for the Juno mission, NASA’s latest New Frontiers space probe. After a five year trip through the inner Solar System, including an Earth flyby in 2013, Juno will arrive at Jupiter in 2016. While there the spacecraft will measure properties related to the planet’s atmosphere, magnetic field, and gravitational field. Ideally [...]
