INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA's Hubble Traces Hidden History of Andromeda Galaxy Release date: Thursday, January 16, 2025 2:15:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a chilly, crystal-clear autumn night you can see the farthest object visible in the universe without the aid of a telescope or binoculars. Just to the northeast of the Great Square of Pegasus, it appears as a spindle-shaped patch of haze with a bright center. It is the ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10412 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 14, 2025 - 06:59 PM January 15, 2025 (DOY 015/0000z - 015/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17269 Xin Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign A Complete Census of Luminous Sub-arcsec Dual/Lensed Quasars at z > 1.5 17310 Michael Koss, Eureka Scientific Inc. A Blue Gap Sur ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY This Tiny Galaxy Is Answering Some Big Questions Release date: Thursday, January 16, 2025 2:15:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal patterns of star formation in an isolated dwarf galaxy. Sometimes little galaxies hold big clues to star formation over cosmic time. An STScI-led team of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope to study Leo P, a dwarf galaxy located about 5.3 million light years from Earth ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News Pipeline News: 1/f Noise Correction Is Available in Build 11.1 Build 11.1 includes a new, optional step to allow users to correct 1/f noise in JWST's three near-infrared instruments. 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 #10411 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 13, 2025 - 06:59 PM January 14, 2025 (DOY 014/0000z - 014/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17212 Michael West, Lowell Observatory Caught in the Act: The Hierarchical Formation of Abell 1185 17423 Giulia Tozzi, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Towards an unbiased sam ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10411 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 13, 2025 - 06:59 PM January 14, 2025 (DOY 014/0000z - 014/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17212 Michael West, Lowell Observatory Caught in the Act: The Hierarchical Formation of Abell 1185 17423 Giulia Tozzi, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Towards an unbiased sam ...Continue Reading

JWST Observer Latest News Save the Date for the JWST Summer School in August We are looking forward to hosting the inaugural JWST Summer School during the first two full weeks in August 2025. View All JWST Observer News ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble's Discovery of a New Universe Release date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 10:15:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies Astronomers were befuddled at the beginning of the 20th century. The nighttime sky was littered with at least 110 nebulous objects first cataloged by French astronomer Charles Messier in the late 1700s. Most were identified as star clusters, nebulae, supernova re ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10410 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 12, 2025 - 06:59 PM January 13, 2025 (DOY 013/0000z - 013/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17121 Varsha Kulkarni, University of South Carolina Probing the Gas in and around Local Galaxies Mapped with Integral Field Spectroscopy 17212 Michael West, Lowell Observatory Caught in the Ac ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA's Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas Release date: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 2:15:00 PM Eastern Standard Time A supernova flashbulb illuminated otherwise unseen material between the stars. The space between the stars is filled with gas and dust – sometimes thick, sometimes thin, and often invisible unless illuminated. A cosmic spotlight in the form of a supernova flash has lit up interstellar material in the constellation of Cassiopeia. ...Continue Reading