2022 AURA Annual Meeting
Each year the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) holds an Annual Meeting for the Representatives from its ...
STScI: NASA’s Webb In Full Focus, Ready for Instrument Commissioning
Alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be ...
STScI: Hubble Confirms Largest Comet Nucleus Ever Seen
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has determined the size of the largest icy comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers. The estimated ...
STScI: Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the ...
Many Segments are now One Mirror
Today NASA released the first image from Webb with all 18 segments focused and functioning together as a single 6.5-meter ...
STScI: Galaxy Collision Creates ‘Space Triangle’ in New Hubble Image
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from ...
STScI: Studying the Next Interstellar Interloper with Webb
Scientists have had only limited ability to study these objects once discovered, but all of that is about to change ...
STScI: Capturing All That Glitters in Galaxies with NASA’s Webb
An international research team will survey the stars, star clusters, and dust that lie within 19 nearby galaxies ...
STScI: Hubble Finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
Often portrayed as destructive monsters that hold light captive, black holes take on a less villainous role in the latest ...
Webb Begins its Journey on ESA’s Ariane 5 Rocket!
Today, the James Webb Space Telescope successfully blasted off from the European Space Agency’s launch site in Kourou, French Guiana ...
STScI: Hubble’s Grand Tour of the Outer Solar System
From its vantage point high above Earth's atmosphere, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has completed this year's grand tour of the ...
STScI: Webb Primed to Lift the Haze Surrounding Sub-Neptunes
More than half of the Sun-like star systems surveyed in the Milky Way harbor a mysterious type of planet unlike ...