Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10272 Period Covered: 08:00 PM August 27, 2024 - 07:59 PM August 28, 2024 (DOY 241/0000z - 241/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17147 Claudia Scarlata, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities The Parallel Ionizing Emissivity Survey 17152 George Zhou, University of Southern Queensland Probing for the extended exosphere of a ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA's Roman Space Telescope to Investigate Galactic Fossils Release date: Thursday, August 29, 2024 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Scientists will study nearby galaxies to uncover galactic formation history and dark matter The universe may seem static, only capable of being captured in still frames, but that is far from the truth. It is actually ever-changing, just not on timescales clearly visible to humans. NASA’s upcoming Roman Space Telescope will bridge ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10271 Period Covered: 08:00 PM August 26, 2024 - 07:59 PM August 27, 2024 (DOY 240/0000z - 240/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17455 Yue Shen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign A Snapshot Survey of Sub-arcsec Dual Quasars and Lenses at z>2 17483 Rajeshwari Dutta, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astr ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY New Horizons Measurements Shed New Light on the Darkness of the Universe Release date: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 1:00:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Deep space probe measures all the background light in the universe. How dark is dark? This is not a Dr. Seuss riddle but a serious question astronomers have been probing for years. Their big opportunity came with the New Horizons spacecraft that is now far beyond the planets at more than 5.4 billion miles from Earth. I ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10270 Period Covered: 08:00 PM August 25, 2024 - 07:59 PM August 26, 2024 (DOY 239/0000z - 239/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17455 Yue Shen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign A Snapshot Survey of Sub-arcsec Dual Quasars and Lenses at z>2 17472 Andrew Levan, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Gamma-ray burst s ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10269 Period Covered: 08:00 PM August 24, 2024 - 07:59 PM August 25, 2024 (DOY 238/0000z - 238/2359z) 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 17294 Amy Simon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Hubble 2020: Outer Planet Atmo ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News The New JWST Duplicate Observation Search Tool Is Now Available MAST's new Duplicate Observation Search Tool can help JWST Observers identify potential duplications. View All JWST Observer News ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren't Too Big for Their Britches After All Release date: Monday, August 26, 2024 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries. Not long after the James Webb Space Telescope began science operations in July 2022, breathless headlines proclaimed that observations of distant galaxies were “breaking theories of cosmic evolution.” Astronomers had ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10268 Period Covered: 08:00 PM August 23, 2024 - 07:59 PM August 24, 2024 (DOY 237/0000z - 237/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17294 Amy Simon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Hubble 2020: Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) Program 17416 Philip Bennett, Dalhousie University Wind Structure of 31 Cygni from UV Eclips ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10267 Period Covered: 08:00 PM August 22, 2024 - 07:59 PM August 23, 2024 (DOY 236/0000z - 236/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17148 Floriane Leclercq, University of Texas at Austin Preparing to find the sources of the reionization: Testing MgII as a Lyman Continuum tracer using a unique mock JWST sample 17155 Oleg Kargalt ...Continue Reading