Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9764 Period Covered: 08:00 PM April 07, 2023 - 07:59 PM April 08, 2023 (DOY 098/0000z - 098/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 16678 Pieter van Dokkum, Yale University Far-UV spectroscopy of 22 early-type galaxies: testing for IMF variation and a legacy dataset 16703 Joseph Burchett, New Mexico State University Unveiling M ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9763 Period Covered: 08:00 PM April 06, 2023 - 07:59 PM April 07, 2023 (DOY 097/0000z - 097/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 16763 Matilde Mingozzi, Space Telescope Science Institute Tracking down the origin of UV photons in local high-z analogues with FUV emission line imaging 17106 Claus Leitherer, Space Telescope Science ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9763 Period Covered: 08:00 PM April 06, 2023 - 07:59 PM April 07, 2023 (DOY 097/0000z - 097/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 16763 Matilde Mingozzi, Space Telescope Science Institute Tracking down the origin of UV photons in local high-z analogues with FUV emission line imaging 17106 Claus Leitherer, Space Telescope Science ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9762 Period Covered: 08:00 PM April 05, 2023 - 07:59 PM April 06, 2023 (DOY 096/0000z - 096/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 15944 Trent Dupuy, University of Edinburgh, Institute for Astronomy The Coolest Sample of Brown Dwarf Dynamical Masses 16997 Trent Dupuy, University of Edinburgh, Institute for Astronomy Dynamical ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Webb Reveals Never-Before-Seen Details in Cassiopeia A Release date: Friday, April 7, 2023 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Glowing dust and elements display complex structures that are challenging for scientists to explain. The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the remains that the star leaves behind can be even more dramatic. A new mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provides one stunning example. It shows the ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9761 Period Covered: 08:00 PM April 04, 2023 - 07:59 PM April 05, 2023 (DOY 095/0000z - 095/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17001 Walter Maksym, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory The Last Gasp of the TDE Wind 17106 Claus Leitherer, Space Telescope Science Institute A Novel View of Local Star-Forming Gala ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA’s Webb Scores Another Ringed World with New Image of Uranus Release date: Thursday, April 6, 2023 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Webb's infrared image highlights the planet's dramatic rings and dynamic atmosphere. The planet Uranus is an oddball in our solar system, tilted on its side as it orbits the sun, causing extreme seasons. While the planet’s atmosphere appeared nearly featureless when visited by the Voyager 2 sp ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars Release date: Thursday, April 6, 2023 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time A Bizarre 200,000-Light-Year-Long Bridge Links a Galaxy to Its Escaping Black Hole The universe is so capricious that even the slightest things that might go unnoticed could have profound implications. That's what happened to Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum when he was looking through Hubble Space Telescope images and noticed ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #9760 Period Covered: 08:00 PM April 03, 2023 - 07:59 PM April 04, 2023 (DOY 094/0000z - 094/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 15444 Aaron Barth, University of California - Irvine An ACS Schedule Gap Imaging Survey of Nearby Active Galaxies 16786 Claire Murray, Space Telescope Science Institute Scylla: a pure-parallel, mul ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Hubble Unexpectedly Finds Double Quasar in Distant Universe Release date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 11:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time A Pair of Merging Galaxies Ignite Black Holes on a Collision Course Quasars are among the universe's brightest fireworks. Scattered all across the sky, they blaze with the opulence of over 100 billion stars. And, like a brilliant July 4th aerial flare, they are dazzling for a relatively brief time — on cosmic times ...Continue Reading