INBOX ASTRONOMY Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula Lurks Within Sight of NASA’s Hubble, Webb Release date: Thursday, October 29, 2026 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time The star-forming region bewitches in visible and infrared light. Just in time for Halloween, NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes recently stared at an eerie star-forming scene within the Carina Nebula, a massive gas and dust cloud located approximately 7,500 light-years away from Earth. The two telescopes offer complementary views of th ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #11062 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 26, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 27, 2026 (DOY 300/0000z - 300/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17802 Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Rochester Institute of Technology CLUTCH: The COSMOS Legacy UV-Optical Treasury Campaign with Hubble 17804 R. O. Loyd, Eureka Scientific Inc. STELa: Survey of Transit ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News Save the Date for JWST Summer School II The second JWST Summer School will be held August 2-13, 2027 and will focus on exoplanet transits, eclipses, and phase curves with JWST. View All JWST Observer News ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #11061 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 25, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 26, 2026 (DOY 299/0000z - 299/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17700 Christopher Johns-Krull, Rice University Separating Accretion and Magnetic Activity in Young Brown Dwarfs 17802 Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Rochester Institute of Technology CLUTCH: The COSMOS L ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News Closing Soon: Call for White Papers for Multi-Cycle Treasury Program Concepts with JWST The deadline for submitting white papers with compelling scientific ideas for Multi-Cycle Treasury programs requiring large allocations of JWST telescope time is November 4, 2026. View All JWST Observer News ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #11060 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 24, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 25, 2026 (DOY 298/0000z - 298/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17310 Michael Koss, Eureka Scientific Inc. A Blue Gap Survey of Nearby Active Galaxies 17724 Geoffrey Mo, Carnegie Institution of Washington An ultraviolet time-domain survey of the compact b ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News The 2026 JWST Community Survey Is Now Open Help us improve the JWST user experience by providing feedback through our survey. View All JWST Observer News ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #11059 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 23, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 24, 2026 (DOY 297/0000z - 297/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17804 R. O. Loyd, Eureka Scientific Inc. STELa: Survey of Transiting Exoplanets in Lyman-alpha 18044 Yuri Izotov, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, BITP UV spectroscopy of extremely me ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #11058 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 22, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 23, 2026 (DOY 296/0000z - 296/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 18068 Nitya Kallivayalil, The University of Virginia Dynamically Mapping the Satellite Galaxies in the Outer Halo of the Milky Way 18096 Namrata Roy, Raman Research Institute COS-RAD: Where R ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #11057 Period Covered: 08:00 PM October 21, 2026 - 07:59 PM October 22, 2026 (DOY 295/0000z - 295/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17470 Kurt Retherford, Southwest Research Institute HST-Juno Io Campaign: Connecting Volcanos to the Plasma Environment 17921 Alejandro Serrano Borlaff, NASA Ames Research Center In-flight ca ...Continue Reading