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STScI Scientists Part of Collaboration Receiving 2027 Berkeley Prize
Release date: Thursday, September 17, 2026 12:00:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
UNCOVER project revealed JWST’s “little red dots” as mysterious, dusty black holes in the early universe.
Scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute are members of the collaboration that has been awarded the 2027 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy as part of their work with the UNCOVER project. The Berkeley prize is awarded annually for highly meritorious work in advancing the science of astronomy during the previous year.
UNCOVER is a Cycle 1 Treasury program on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. This program conducted ultradeep imaging and spectroscopy of and around Abell 2744, a massive group of galaxies also known as “Pandora's Cluster.”
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