INBOX ASTRONOMY Webb Looks for Fomalhaut's Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More Release date: Monday, May 8, 2023 11:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Nearby Planetary System Seen in Breathtaking Detail A new Webb Space Telescope image of the bright, nearby star Fomalhaut reveals its planetary system with details never seen before, including nested concentric rings of dust. These belts most likely are carved by the gravitational forces produced by embedded, unseen planets. Similarly, ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9792 Period Covered: 08:00 PM May 05, 2023 - 07:59 PM May 06, 2023 (DOY 126/0000z - 126/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17113 Alain Lecavelier des Etangs, CNRS, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris Simultaneous detection of Mg, C and O to trace dust and ices in exocomets of the young system HD172555 17165 Misty Bentz, Georgia ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9791 Period Covered: 08:00 PM May 04, 2023 - 07:59 PM May 05, 2023 (DOY 125/0000z - 125/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 16659 Anna Pala, ESA-European Space Astronomy Centre Accreting white dwarfs as probes of compact binary evolution 16772 Michael Eracleous, The Pennsylvania State University They Pack a Punch: Mechanica ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9790 Period Covered: 08:00 PM May 03, 2023 - 07:59 PM May 04, 2023 (DOY 124/0000z - 124/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 15445 William Keel, University of Alabama Gems of the Galaxy Zoos 16716 Kailash Sahu, Space Telescope Science Institute Snapshot Survey of Historical Microlensing Events 16772 Michael Eracleous, ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9789 Period Covered: 08:00 PM May 02, 2023 - 07:59 PM May 03, 2023 (DOY 123/0000z - 123/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17069 Matthew Hayes, Stockholm University The Lyman-alpha and Continuum Origins Survey (LaCOS) 17078 Sascha Zeegers, European Space Agency - ESTEC A multi-wavelength view of interstellar dust 17110 ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Hubble Follows Shadow Play Around Planet-Forming Disk Release date: Thursday, May 4, 2023 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Unseen Newborn Planets Are Stirring Up Dust Around a Young Star Our universe is so capricious it sometimes likes to play a game of hide and seek. In 2017, astronomers were surprised to see a huge shadow sweeping across a disk of dust and gas encircling the nearby young star TW Hydrae. The shadow is cast by an inner disk of dust and gas that ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9788 Period Covered: 08:00 PM May 01, 2023 - 07:59 PM May 02, 2023 (DOY 122/0000z - 122/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 15445 William Keel, University of Alabama Gems of the Galaxy Zoos 16716 Kailash Sahu, Space Telescope Science Institute Snapshot Survey of Historical Microlensing Events 16813 Julia Roman-Duval, ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9787 Period Covered: 08:00 PM April 30, 2023 - 07:59 PM May 01, 2023 (DOY 121/0000z - 121/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 16659 Anna Pala, ESA-European Space Astronomy Centre Accreting white dwarfs as probes of compact binary evolution 16716 Kailash Sahu, Space Telescope Science Institute Snapshot Survey of Historical M ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9786 Period Covered: 08:00 PM April 29, 2023 - 07:59 PM April 30, 2023 (DOY 120/0000z - 120/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17075 Edoardo Lagioia, Universita degli Studi di Padova Characterization of internal chemical spread in outer halo globular clusters 17121 Varsha Kulkarni, University of South Carolina Probing the ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Webb Finds Water Vapor, But From a Rocky Planet or Its Star? Release date: Monday, May 1, 2023 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time More observations will be needed to determine if exoplanet GJ 486 b has an atmosphere. GJ 486 b is about 30% larger than the Earth and three times as massive, which means it is a rocky world with stronger gravity than Earth. It orbits a red dwarf star in just under 1.5 Earth days. It is too close to its star to be within the habitable z ...Continue Reading