INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA’s Webb Uncovers Star Formation in Cluster’s Dusty Ribbons Release date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 1:15:40 PM Eastern Standard Time New Data Provides Insights Into an Early Era of Star Formation By peering into a well-known star cluster within the Small Magellanic Cloud, Webb’s NIRCam instrument has revealed many new pockets of star formation that have never been seen. Further, new structures appear in this image that provide a window into the stars feeding ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA’s Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet Release date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 1:15:20 PM Eastern Standard Time The planet is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth, but whips around its star in only two days. Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have formally embarked on a new frontier: Identifying and analyzing rocky exoplanets that orbit red dwarf stars. A team led by Kevin Stevenson and Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, both of the Johns Hopk ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY New Webb Image Reveals Dusty Disk Like Never Seen Before Release date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 1:15:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Results will aid in future searches for giant planets in wide orbits Not so very far way in cosmic terms, the dusty leftovers of planet formation surround the red dwarf star AU Mic. Caused by smash-ups of small, solid objects called planetesimals, these remnants encircle the small star in an enormous debris disk. Now, Webb is providi ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News Announcing the First Year of JWST Science Conference STScI is planning a conference in September to highlight the first year of science with JWST. 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 ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Hubble Finds that Ghost Light Among Galaxies Stretches Far Back in Time Release date: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 11:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Orphaned Stars Were Lost into Intergalactic Space Long Ago In the 1960s sci-fi television show "Lost in Space" a small family of would-be planetary colonists get off course and lost in our galaxy. But truth is stranger than fiction when it comes to Hubble Space Telescope discoveries. Thanks to Hubble, astrono ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News Proposal Development Resources Available Online Use these resources to help you prepare your JWST proposal. 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-city.com Manage Your Subs ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News JWST Resumes Science Operations after Brief Pause Science operations were paused briefly to make procedural adjustments. 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-city.com Mana ...Continue Reading

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