INBOX ASTRONOMY Webb Measures Distance to Farthest Fast Radio Burst, Suggesting Origin Release date: Thursday, October 8, 2026 2:00:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Record breaker dates back to just 3 billion years after the big bang. What mysterious phenomenon is capable of creating a millisecond-long blast of radio waves so powerful that we can detect it from billions of light-years away? The origin of such events, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), remains uncertain. A recently discovered FRB contains a ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #11042 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 06, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 07, 2026 (DOY 280/0000z - 280/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17771 Peter Senchyna, Carnegie Institution of Washington Completing the picture of high-ionization UV emission powered by the most metal-poor massive star populations 17804 R. O. Loyd, Eureka Sc ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News Join Us for the Upcoming JSTUC Community Forum JWebbinar The JWST community will have the opportunity to provide valuable feedback to the JSTUC during this session. 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 #11041 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 05, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 06, 2026 (DOY 279/0000z - 279/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17771 Peter Senchyna, Carnegie Institution of Washington Completing the picture of high-ionization UV emission powered by the most metal-poor massive star populations 17804 R. O. Loyd, Eureka Sc ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #11040 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 04, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 05, 2026 (DOY 278/0000z - 278/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17826 Goeran Oestlin, Stockholm University Lyman alpha imaging of galaxies with the lowest mass and metallicity 18034 Alberto Saldana-Lopez, Stockholm University Spatially resolving the condi ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA's Webb Captures Commotion From Nebula’s Stellar Jets Release date: Tuesday, October 6, 2026 9:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Webb’s infrared gaze reveals stars at various stages in their life cycles in high resolution A technicolor dreamscape is revealed in this new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. It portrays a stellar nursery known as NGC 7129, a nebula that holds numerous protostars and stars within its fields of gas and dust. Webb captured infrared light, which pie ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #11039 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 03, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 04, 2026 (DOY 277/0000z - 277/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17749 Travis Fischer, Space Telescope Science Institute - ESA - JWST A UV IFU in Space: Observations of AGN Feedback and Star Formation in NGC 1068 17826 Goeran Oestlin, Stockholm University ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #11039 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 03, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 04, 2026 (DOY 277/0000z - 277/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17749 Travis Fischer, Space Telescope Science Institute - ESA - JWST A UV IFU in Space: Observations of AGN Feedback and Star Formation in NGC 1068 17826 Goeran Oestlin, Stockholm University ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Suspected Second-generation Planet Solves NASA Hubble Cold Case Release date: Monday, October 5, 2026 11:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time New analysis of archival Hubble data points to the possibility of "dead" white dwarf stars hosting second-generation planetary systems For more than a quarter century, unidentified chemical signatures from a white dwarf star have laid dormant in the archive of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, until diligent sleuthing by a young astronomer reveal ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #11038 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 02, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 03, 2026 (DOY 276/0000z - 276/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17749 Travis Fischer, Space Telescope Science Institute - ESA - JWST A UV IFU in Space: Observations of AGN Feedback and Star Formation in NGC 1068 17991 Peter Blanchard, Harvard University P ...Continue Reading