INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA’s Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxy Release date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time By piercing through thick dust, new details of galaxy M82 shine through. The James Webb Space Telescope has provided an in-depth look at edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82), a prototypical starburst galaxy that is forming stars 10 times faster than our own Milky Way galaxy. This dynamic environment has previously garnered observations by many observatories, in ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Hubble Details Early Galaxy Transforming Neighborhood Release date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026 10:00:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time Researchers show that a galaxy’s young, tightly packed stars converted nearby gas from opaque to clear only 1.4 billion years after the big bang. Astronomers have demonstrated how one galaxy that existed when the cosmos was only 1.4 billion years old transformed the gas in and around itself: Light from its young, massive, closely clustered stars blasted through opaque, ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10934 Period Covered: 08:00 PM June 20, 2026 - 07:59 PM June 21, 2026 (DOY 172/0000z - 172/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17710 Martin Millon, University of Geneva, Department of Theoretical Physics Establishing quasar-host scaling relations with strong gravitational lensing 17730 Katherine Whitaker, University of Massach ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News First Look at NIRCam Short Wavelength Grism Time-Series Data The new "multistripe" capability allows for short wavelength grism time-series spectroscopy to be taken simultaneously with long wavelength spectroscopy. View All JWST Observer News ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA’s Webb Finds Clues to Ancient, Distant Origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS Release date: Monday, June 22, 2026 11:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time The third identified interstellar comet in human history has a surprising chemical makeup, raising questions as to how common, or unusual, conditions in our own solar system may be.  Billions of years ago in a nascent planetary system somewhere in the Milky Way galaxy, the icy fragment now known as 3I/ATLAS was getting knocked around as larger planet ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10933 Period Covered: 08:00 PM June 19, 2026 - 07:59 PM June 20, 2026 (DOY 171/0000z - 171/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17307 Kim-Vy Tran, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory A Legacy Library of 500 Strong Gravitational Lenses 17730 Katherine Whitaker, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fulfilling th ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10933 Period Covered: 08:00 PM June 19, 2026 - 07:59 PM June 20, 2026 (DOY 171/0000z - 171/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17307 Kim-Vy Tran, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory A Legacy Library of 500 Strong Gravitational Lenses 17730 Katherine Whitaker, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fulfilling th ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10932 Period Covered: 08:00 PM June 18, 2026 - 07:59 PM June 19, 2026 (DOY 170/0000z - 170/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17307 Kim-Vy Tran, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory A Legacy Library of 500 Strong Gravitational Lenses 17308 Cameron Lemon, Stockholm University An HST Gap Program for lensed Quasa ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10931 Period Covered: 08:00 PM June 17, 2026 - 07:59 PM June 18, 2026 (DOY 169/0000z - 169/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17520 Louise Breuval, Space Telescope Science Institute - ESA A 1% cross-calibration of Cepheids, TRGB, and JAGB in five nearby galaxies with HST 17730 Katherine Whitaker, University of Massachusetts - ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10930 Period Covered: 08:00 PM June 16, 2026 - 07:59 PM June 17, 2026 (DOY 168/0000z - 168/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17307 Kim-Vy Tran, Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory A Legacy Library of 500 Strong Gravitational Lenses 17730 Katherine Whitaker, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fulfilling th ...Continue Reading