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

INBOX ASTRONOMY Newfound Galaxy Class May Indicate Early Black Hole Growth, Webb Finds Release date: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 10:15:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Scientists compile large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe. Soon after the start of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s science operations, astronomers noticed something unexpected in the data: red objects that appear small on the sky, located in the distant, you ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY NASA's Hubble Tracks Down a 'Blue Lurker' Among Stars Release date: Monday, January 13, 2025 2:15:00 PM Eastern Standard Time A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the Star Wars movie trilogy where Luke Skywalker watched two suns set on the horizon as seen from his home planet Tatooine. Now imagine three suns in the sky! This is t ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10409 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 11, 2025 - 06:59 PM January 12, 2025 (DOY 012/0000z - 012/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17528 Chris Mihos, Case Western Reserve University Ultradiffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster 17697 Matti Dorsch, Universitat Potsdam A far-UV treasury survey for hot subdwarf stars 17718 ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10409 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 11, 2025 - 06:59 PM January 12, 2025 (DOY 012/0000z - 012/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17528 Chris Mihos, Case Western Reserve University Ultradiffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster 17697 Matti Dorsch, Universitat Potsdam A far-UV treasury survey for hot subdwarf stars 17718 ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Webb Watches Carbon-Rich Dust Shells Form, Expand in Star System Release date: Monday, January 13, 2025 2:15:00 PM Eastern Standard Time The telescope shows that the winds of two massive stars are producing carbon-rich dust, which may eventually “seed” new stars and planets. How are the elements like carbon produced and spread across space? Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified two stars responsible for generating carbon-rich dust a mer ...Continue Reading

INBOX ASTRONOMY Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet Release date: Monday, January 13, 2025 10:15:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Astronomers are now rethinking the underlying trigger of quasar jets. Following up on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in a number of quasars, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed one of the quasar host galaxies to have a spiral shape, defying expectations. It has been thought that quasar jets are tri ...Continue Reading

Earlier reports Convert Day of Year The Hubble Space Telescope Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe Daily Report #10408 Period Covered: 07:00 PM January 10, 2025 - 06:59 PM January 11, 2025 (DOY 011/0000z - 011/2359z) Program Principal Investigator Program Title Science Observations Scheduled 17528 Chris Mihos, Case Western Reserve University Ultradiffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster 17593 Hans Boehringer, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Studying a massive galaxy ...Continue Reading