Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10999 Period Covered: 08:00 PM August 24, 2026 - 07:59 PM August 25, 2026 (DOY 237/0000z - 237/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17912 Matthew Bayliss, University of Cincinnati Main Campus Mapping Spatially Resolved Neutral H In Strongly Lensed Quasar Host Galaxies With Narrowband Lyman-alpha 18029 Paul Bennet, Space Telesco ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News Maximum Visit Duration Is 6 Days for JWST Cycle 6 A scientific justification must be provided for these long visits. View All JWST Observer News ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News JWST Cycle 6 Call for Proposals Policy Update This policy update pertains to eligibility for funding. View All JWST Observer News ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10999 Period Covered: 08:00 PM August 24, 2026 - 07:59 PM August 25, 2026 (DOY 237/0000z - 237/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17912 Matthew Bayliss, University of Cincinnati Main Campus Mapping Spatially Resolved Neutral H In Strongly Lensed Quasar Host Galaxies With Narrowband Lyman-alpha 18029 Paul Bennet, Space Telesco ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10992 Period Covered: 08:00 PM August 17, 2026 - 07:59 PM August 18, 2026 (DOY 230/0000z - 230/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17600 Shreyas Vissapragada, Carnegie Institution of Washington The Exosphere of an Venus-Like Exoplanet 18025 Davide Massari, INAF - Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio Last but n ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News New NIRSpec BOTS Prism Multistripe Capability To Observe Brighter Targets The new multistripe readout capability improves the bright limits for time-series observations. View All JWST Observer News ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10991 Period Covered: 08:00 PM August 16, 2026 - 07:59 PM August 17, 2026 (DOY 229/0000z - 229/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17804 R. O. Loyd, Eureka Scientific Inc. STELa: Survey of Transiting Exoplanets in Lyman-alpha 17809 David Thilker, The Johns Hopkins University Decoding stellar feedback in action with an HST+M ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10990 Period Covered: 08:00 PM August 15, 2026 - 07:59 PM August 16, 2026 (DOY 228/0000z - 228/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17307 Kim-Vy Tran, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory A Legacy Library of 500 Strong Gravitational Lenses 17700 Christopher Johns-Krull, Rice University Separating Accretion and M ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Hubble Solves Merger Mystery From Milky Way’s Early Years Release date: Monday, August 17, 2026 11:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Astronomers find strong evidence for a massive merger 1.8 billion years earlier than the oldest previously known significant merger. The early universe was a chaotic place, crowded with young galaxies that smashed together and agglomerated into larger and larger galaxies over billions of years. Our own Milky Way experienced such collisions, but the details are dif ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News The New MIRI Readout Pattern Improves Read Noise The new readout pattern reduces the read noise by more than a factor of 2 with respect to SLOWR1. View All JWST Observer News ...Continue Reading