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How do professional astronomers book time on JWST or Hubble?

Astronomy 05 Oct 2026
How do professional astronomers book time on JWST or Hubble? Frank CoulterTauranga, ...
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JWST Teaches Us More About ‘Extreme Debris Disks’ – Young Planetary Systems Where Mars-Sized And Moon-Sized Worlds Collide

IFL Science 01 Oct 2026
Years ago, the now defunct NASA Spitzer telescope spotted a handful of unusual debris disks around young stars ... Observations with JWST and archival data from Spitzer have since expanded the catalog by several times ...   ... Image credit ... .
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JWST UNCOVER Collaboration Wins 2027 Berkeley Prize (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Public Technologies 23 Sep 2026
BGU astronomer Adi Zitrin's JWST UNCOVER collaboration wins the 2027 Berkeley Prize for revealing early galaxies and black holes. The JWST UNCOVER collaboration will receive the 2027 Lancelot M.
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Massive star clusters drive galaxy evolution

Astronomy 22 Sep 2026
Astronomers understand the basics of star formation.
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How Small Can The Smallest Stellar Object Be? One Of The Largest Images From JWST Suggests Smaller Than We Thought Possible

IFL Science 19 Sep 2026
JWST has now pushed that limit way down. In one of its largest-ever images, JWST mapped the star-forming cloud IC 348 ... This has already been an interesting target for JWST ... JWST will continue to observe ...
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Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade

Ars Technica 19 Sep 2026
For decades, astronomers thought rings were something only giant planets had ... “It was a surprise,” says Pablo Santos-Sanz, an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada, Spain ... We don’t know exactly why. Shadowing a star.
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JWST’s ‘impossible’ early galaxies may be even more massive than we thought

Astronomy Now 24 Aug 2026
They used JWST to obtain exceptionally deep spectra of nine massive galaxies seen as they were about seven billion years ago, combining them with earlier observations from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
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The 25 Best James Webb Space Telescope Photos

PetaPixel 12 Jul 2026
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is celebrating its fourth birthday today, and like PetaPixel did two years ago, it's the perfect opportunity to look at the 25 best space photos Webb has captured thus far. [Read More] ... .
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JWST studies a supernova near the dawn of time

Astronomy 09 Jul 2026
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The JWST and the Mystery of Massive Quenched Galaxies in the Early Universe

Universe Today 08 Jul 2026
... light from early galaxies, the JWST has revealed some surprises.
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JWST's 'overmassive' early black holes may not be so massive after all

Phys Dot Org 08 Jul 2026
Ever since the advent of JWST, astronomers have been able to detect massive black holes at galaxy centers within the first billion years of the universe ... JWST's 'overmassive' early black holes may not ...
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