INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA's Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf Release date: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 11:15:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Infrared emission from methane suggests atmospheric heating by auroral processes. Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) that may display possible aurorae, like the familiar Northern Lights on our world. This is an unexpected ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10038 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 06, 2024 - 06:59 PM January 07, 2024 (DOY 007/0000z - 007/2359z) 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 17070 Charles Kilpatrick, Northwestern University Snapshot Observations of Typ ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10037 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 05, 2024 - 06:59 PM January 06, 2024 (DOY 006/0000z - 006/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 16995 Amy Simon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Hubble 2020: Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) Program 17159 Xin Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Escaping Lyman Continuum from the Over ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10036 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 04, 2024 - 06:59 PM January 05, 2024 (DOY 005/0000z - 005/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 16995 Amy Simon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Hubble 2020: Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) Program 17096 Thomas Lai, California Institute of Technology Linking the UV Bump with PAHs ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10035 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 03, 2024 - 06:59 PM January 04, 2024 (DOY 004/0000z - 004/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 16181 Laura Kreidberg, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Exploring the Demographics of Exo-Neptunes: Atmospheric Characterization of a Cool Sub-Neptune from TESS 17096 Thomas Lai, California Ins ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10035 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 03, 2024 - 06:59 PM January 04, 2024 (DOY 004/0000z - 004/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 16181 Laura Kreidberg, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Exploring the Demographics of Exo-Neptunes: Atmospheric Characterization of a Cool Sub-Neptune from TESS 17096 Thomas Lai, California Ins ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10034 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 02, 2024 - 06:59 PM January 03, 2024 (DOY 003/0000z - 003/2359z) There were no scheduled observations during the report period. ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10034 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 02, 2024 - 06:59 PM January 03, 2024 (DOY 003/0000z - 003/2359z) There were no scheduled observations during the report period. ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10034 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 02, 2024 - 06:59 PM January 03, 2024 (DOY 003/0000z - 003/2359z) There were no scheduled observations during the report period. ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA's Hubble Observes Exoplanet Atmosphere Changing Over 3 Years Release date: Thursday, January 4, 2024 10:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Stormy weather on display on a "hot Jupiter" The Jupiter-sized planet WASP-121 b is no place to call home. For starters, it orbits very close to a star that is brighter and hotter than the Sun. The planet is so dangerously close to its star that its upper atmosphere reaches a blazing 3,400 degrees Fahrenheit – hotte ...Continue Reading