Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10105 Period Covered: 08:00 PM March 13, 2024 - 07:59 PM March 14, 2024 (DOY 074/0000z - 074/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17309 Vihang Mehta, California Institute of Technology Resolved imaging survey of the analogs of high-z massive, star-forming clumps 17420 Boris Gaensicke, The University of Warwick A legacy surve ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10104 Period Covered: 08:00 PM March 12, 2024 - 07:59 PM March 13, 2024 (DOY 073/0000z - 073/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17069 Matthew Hayes, Stockholm University The Lyman-alpha and Continuum Origins Survey (LaCOS) 17128 Ryan Foley, University of California - Santa Cruz Reducing Type Ia Supernova Distance Biases by ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Hubble Tracks Jupiter's Stormy Weather Release date: Thursday, March 14, 2024 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Cyclones, Wind Shear, Violent Storms Churn in Jupiter's Atmosphere The largest and nearest of the giant outer planets, Jupiter's colorful clouds present an ever-changing kaleidoscope of shapes and colors. This is a planet where there is always stormy weather: cyclones, anticyclones, wind shear, and the largest storm in the solar system, the Great Red Sp ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10103 Period Covered: 08:00 PM March 11, 2024 - 07:59 PM March 12, 2024 (DOY 072/0000z - 072/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 16991 John Debes, Space Telescope Science Institute - ESA - JWST A Multi-Cycle Monitoring Program of the Hydra's Shadow 17143 Xuheng Ding, Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe Ide ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Cheers! NASA's Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds Release date: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 9:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Newfound carbon-containing molecules are key ingredients for potentially habitable planets. Stars and their planets form from swirling clouds of gas and dust enriched with chemical elements and compounds from previous generations of stars. One long-standing question in astronomy is: How ubiquitous are the elements crucial to ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10102 Period Covered: 08:00 PM March 10, 2024 - 07:59 PM March 11, 2024 (DOY 071/0000z - 071/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17147 Claudia Scarlata, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities The Parallel Ionizing Emissivity Survey 17153 Floriane Leclercq, University of Texas at Austin Resolving Lyman Alpha emission in a com ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10101 Period Covered: 07:00 PM March 09, 2024 - 07:59 PM March 10, 2024 (DOY 070/0000z - 070/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17135 Bin Ren, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur Imaging interior to 0.2 arcsec with the STIS coronagraph 17309 Vihang Mehta, California Institute of Technology Resolved imaging survey of the analogs ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA's Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe's Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists Release date: Monday, March 11, 2024 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Webb measurements shed new light on a decade-long mystery. One of the three scientific justifications to the U.S. Congress for building the Hubble Space Telescope was to use its observing power to give an exact value for the expansion rate of the universe. Prior to Hubble’s 1990 launch, observations from ground-ba ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10100 Period Covered: 07:00 PM March 08, 2024 - 06:59 PM March 09, 2024 (DOY 069/0000z - 069/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17125 Bethan James, Space Telescope Science Institute - ESA - JWST Sharpening our High-z Toolset: Spatially Resolving UV Emission Line Diagnostics Throughout Pristine Gas 17128 Ryan Foley, University ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 with NASA's Webb Release date: Saturday, March 9, 2024 3:30:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Unique opportunity to study high concentration of massive, young stars nearby In the astronomy field, the term “nearby” is quite relative. Neighboring galaxies to our home galaxy, the Milky Way, are a few million light-years away. In contrast, some of the most distant galaxies ever detected, closer to the Big Bang, are billions of light-yea ...Continue Reading