INBOX ASTRONOMY Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water, NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Find Release date: Thursday, December 15, 2022 11:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Pair of Super-Earths Have 1,000-Mile-Deep Oceans In the 1995 post-apocalyptic action film "Waterworld" Earth's polar ice caps have completely melted, and the sea level has risen to over 5 miles, covering nearly all of the land. Astronomers have uncovered a pair of planets that are true "water worlds,&qu ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA’s Webb Unveils Young Stars in Early Stages of Formation Release date: Thursday, December 15, 2022 10:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Webb’s Infrared Capabilities Pierce Through Dust Clouds to Make Rare Find Searching for buried treasure can be a painstaking, even frustrating, process. Sifting through the proverbial sand for hours and hours, to rarely hit the jackpot, is common. However, with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers are getting a taste o ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News Live Streaming the First Science Results Conference The conference will be livestreamed for those who could not make it in person. View All JWST Observer News Forward this Message to a Friend » Subscription Reminder: You're Subscribed to: [HST REPORTS] using the address: example@example.com From: list.admin@aus-city.com https://aus-cit ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA’s Webb Indicates Several Stars ‘Stirred Up’ Southern Ring Nebula Release date: Thursday, December 8, 2022 11:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Researchers reconstructed the scene, finding up to three unseen stellar companions that may have shaped the planetary nebula’s layers of gas and dust. Wait, how many stars were at this party? It’s likely there were up to five – but only two appear now! A research team recently began digging into Webb’s highly detailed im ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Hubble Detects Ghostly Glow Surrounding Our Solar System  Release date: Thursday, December 8, 2022 10:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Exhaust from Infalling Comets Makes Space a Dusty Place Imagine walking into a room at night, turning out all the lights and closing the shades. Yet an eerie glow comes from the walls, ceiling, and floor. The faint light is barely enough to see your hands before your face, but it persists. Sounds like a scene out of "Ghost ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Peekaboo! Tiny, Hidden Galaxy Provides a Peek into the Past Release date: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 10:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Tucked away in a local pocket of dark matter, a late-blooming dwarf galaxy looks like it belongs in the early universe. Like someone living apart from modern conveniences, a dwarf galaxy in the local universe looks like it belongs in another time—the early eras of galaxy evolution itself. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped co ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News ETC 2.0 Brings Results Based on Inflight Measurements ETC version 2.0 features accuracy updates based on inflight measurements, in addition to other improvements. View All JWST Observer News Forward this Message to a Friend » Subscription Reminder: You're Subscribed to: [HST REPORTS] using the address: example@example.com From: list.ad ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before Release date: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 11:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Observations of WASP-39b show fingerprints of atoms and molecules, as well as signs of active chemistry and clouds WASP-39 b is a planet unlike any in our solar system – a Saturn-sized behemoth that orbits its star closer than Mercury is to our Sun. This exoplanet was one of the first examined by NASA’s James Webb Space Teles ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News JWebbinar 23: PDRs4ALL Community Telecons The PDRs4ALL ERS team is hosting three JWebbinars to help the community prepare for Cycle 2. View All JWST Observer News Forward this Message to a Friend » Subscription Reminder: You're Subscribed to: [HST REPORTS] using the address: example@example.com From: list.admin@aus-city.com https://aus- ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA's Webb Draws Back Curtain on Universe's Early Galaxies Release date: Thursday, November 17, 2022 10:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Telescope’s Infrared Vision Explores the Final Frontier NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope has found an unexpectedly rich “undiscovered country” of early galaxies that has been largely hidden until now. Webb is unveiling a very rich universe where the first forming galaxies look remarkably different from the mature galaxi ...Continue Reading