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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 01/10/2026
#NASAWebb has provided a crash course on planet-shattering collisions, providing clues to the amount of energy in their collisions. (1/6) 🧵 🔭 🧪
Artist’s concept of a star and its debris disk against the black background of space. The star is in the background, right of center, and depicted as a small, luminous sphere. The debris disk is a large blue ring that encircles the star. The debris disk is angled toward the viewer, so that the portion nearest to the viewer extends beyond the bottom frame of the illustration. Many dark, rocky fragments are scattered throughout the debris disk. In the foreground, toward the left, is a small planetary embryo colliding into the left side of a larger spherical object. The impact site glows bright yellow and orange and has a mottled appearance, as though chunks of both colliding bodies are breaking up and being destroyed. Orange-yellow streams of vapor extend outward from the collision area. Behind the debris disk and its star are many small stars in the background. A label in the bottom right corner reads “Artist’s Concept.”
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 01/10/2026
Not a bad office view🌌 This image of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory shows the Milky Way & the ghostly glow of zodiacal light caused by sunlight reflecting off Solar System dust. Zodiacal light is faint, but Cerro Pachón's dark skies make it possible to see! 🔭🧪
Large boot-shaped observatory building under a clear star-filled night sky on a mountain. The glowing band of the Milky Way stretches low and parallel to the horizon on the left, while the faint, barely-there haze of zodiacal light stretches diagonally up and right.
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 01/10/2026
"Let's just take a closer look." Famous last words. NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory images reveal stars, galaxy clusters, nebulae, and a mindblowing number of distant galaxies hiding in the background. 🔭🧪 So go ahead. Zoom in. You might want to clear your schedule. ➡️ skyviewer.app
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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Cycle 6 JWST 🔭 Call for Proposals deadline has been extended to October 1, at 5 pm Eastern Time (US) due to APT server issues. For updates, please check: “Late Breaking News” at the Call for Proposals jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-opportu...
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Me Using James Webb Telescope To Find Who Asked
ALT: Me Using James Webb Telescope To Find Who Asked
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 01/10/2026
#NASAWebb data is helping scientists identify the types of collisions—high or lower energy—occurring between Moon- and Mars-sized objects in young stellar environments. Our solar system is thought to have undergone similar events to form the Moon: news.stsci.edu/47mLryB
Artist’s concept of a star and its debris disk against the black background of space. The star is in the background, right of center, and depicted as a small, luminous sphere. The debris disk is a large blue ring that encircles the star. The debris disk is angled toward the viewer, so that the portion nearest to the viewer extends beyond the bottom frame of the illustration. Many dark, rocky fragments are scattered throughout the debris disk. In the foreground, toward the left, is a small planetary body colliding with a larger spherical object on its right. The impact site glows bright yellow and orange and has a lava-like appearance, as though chunks of both colliding bodies are breaking up and being destroyed. Orange-yellow streams of vapor extend outward from the collision area. Behind the debris disk and its star are many small stars in the background. A label in the bottom right corner reads “Artist’s Concept.”
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AURA Astronomy @aura-astronomy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 30/09/2026
ICYMI: Over the summer #NASAWebb discovered a new exoplanet in the Beta Pictoris system, using a new method. Catch up on more news you may have missed on ViewSpace: viewspace.org/video_library?tags=16…
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 30/09/2026
#NASARoman’s fine-guidance system, which allows the observatory to lock very steadily onto its targets during observations, passed a spate of tests from Sept. 15 to 21. Then on Sept. 22, the mission’s Coronagraph Instrument opened its eyes to cosmic light for the very first time.
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NASA Checks Roman Guidance System, Takes First Coronagraph Observation - NASA Science
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's fine-guidance system, which allows the observatory to lock very steadily onto its targets during observations,
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 25/09/2026
Welcome to Chile, SLAC LSST Camera team colleagues! They arrived from California last week for scheduled camera work during NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s planned engineering downtime. This engineering period will last about three weeks in total. 🔭🧪
A "selfie" from two workers wearing helmets and safety vests using Rubin's primary mirror. They're standing on a metal platform with metal structural beams reflected behind them. Five workers wearing safety gear inside Rubin's dome next to a curved concrete wall. A person in red safety gear and yellow helmet laying on a platform while working on Rubin's giant digital camera. Two people working on computers in an office with safety hard hats and high-visibility vests nearby.
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 26/09/2026
Choose your favorite NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory palette! 🎨✨ Rubin sees a wider range of colors than our eyes do, and when mapped to colors we do see: 🔴 Redder galaxies are farther. 🔵 Blue stars are hotter. 🌈 In the Trifid & Lagoon Nebulae, pink traces hydrogen while blue reveals hot stars. 🔭🧪
Dense starfield with faint clouds of interstellar dust, filled with white, orange, and blue stars. A few brighter blue and orange stars stand out. A horizontal palette bar at the bottom shows blue, gray, orange, brown, and cream swatches.A large pink-red nebula cloud with dark dust lanes at center-left and a smaller blue-pink nebula upper right in a dense, tan Milky Way star field. Bottom palette strip shows pink, slate blue, orange, tan, and brown swatches.Deep field packed with faint galaxies and stars. A few bright blue and orange foreground stars stand out among thousands of galaxies of varying shapes, sizes, and colors. A color palette strip at bottom shows black, dark blue, beige, tan, and gray swatches.Deep field packed with faint galaxies and stars. Bright blue and orange foreground stars show diffraction spikes. Large elliptical galaxies cluster at left and right amid thousand of other galaxies of varying shapes, sizes, and colors. A color palette strip runs along the bottom showing tan, light blue, bright blue, red, and black.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 28/09/2026
#NASAWebb observed galaxy Messier 51 to uncover how star clusters form. This close-up of one of its spiral arms reveals white star clusters among red and orange gas clumps. Credit: ESA, NASA, CSA, A. Pedrini, A. Adamo (Stockholm University), FEAST JWST team.
A large, long portion of one of the spiral arms in spiral galaxy Messier 51. Red-orange, clumpy filaments of gas and dust stretch in a chain from left to right to comprise the arm. Shining cyan bubbles light up parts of the gas clouds from within, and gaps expose bright star clusters in these bubbles as glowing white dots. The whole image is dotted with small, point-like stars. A faint blue glow around the arm illuminates the otherwise dark background.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 23/09/2026
One of the most transformational telescopes of modern time has reached another major milestone—200,000 orbits around Earth. Hubble’s observation from that day is a part of its defining legacy, measuring the expansion rate of the universe: go.nasa.gov/4h812b9 🔭
Dozens of galaxies on the black background of space observed by Hubble. Most of the galaxies are small white splotches. Some galaxies are more oval shaped, others are circular. Toward the center-left is a larger, fuzzy white oval.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 23/09/2026
OPPORTUNITY: The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, is seeking a Principal AWS Cloud Cybersecurity Automation & Systems (CACS) Engineer to join our team supporting NASA flagship space telescope missions that are transforming our understanding of the universe: bit.ly/4hajDmP
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 23/09/2026
In the sky above NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory shines the Pleiades (M45): an open star cluster with at least 1000 stars!✨ Its bright stars are too bright for Rubin's sensitive camera to capture for study, but Rubin will observe many other clusters & help scientists study how stars evolve. 🔭🧪
Large observatory with angular silver dome under a clear night sky filled with stars. A bright, blue star cluster sits above the observatory dome.
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 24/09/2026
Imagine looking up and watching a star suddenly lose 99% of its light. These stars are a rare type of variable star called an R Coronae Borealis. They suddenly puff out huge clouds of dust, blocking nearly all their light for months before returning to normal.🔭🧪
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 25/09/2026
When two galaxies meet a “fireworks” show of star formation can occur. When #NASAWebb peered at starburst galaxy Messier 82 in infrared light, it pierced through dust to reveal hot galactic wind extending from the core where millions of stars are being born. 🔭
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The Cigar Galaxy Lighting Up Under James Webb Space Telescope's Infrared Gaze
Scientifically known as Messier 82 (M82), the Cigar Galaxy forming stars at a rate that far exceeds the norm. Galaxies with this level of intense star formation are known as starburst galaxies. This phase of chaotic creation is often sparked by interact...
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 25/09/2026
Astronomers estimate that there are 500,000 stars within this #NASAWebb image of Sagittarius C. One of the most densely packed areas lies within the dark, U-shaped region at the top left of the cyan-colored cloud of ionized hydrogen: bit.ly/4zeme64
A funnel-shaped region of space appears darker than its surroundings with fewer stars. It is wider at the top edge of the image, narrowing toward the bottom. At the bottom, a small clump of red and white appears to shoot out streamers upward and left. A large, bright, cyan-colored area surrounds the lower portion of the funnel-shaped dark area, forming a rough U shape. The cyan-colored area has needle-like, linear structures and becomes more diffuse in the center. The right side is dominated by clouds of orange and red, with a purple haze. There are thousands of pinpoints of light, a multitude of stars, throughout the view.
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NASA Webb Telescope @nasawebb.extwitter.link · 25/09/2026
Free downloadable mini poster of Webb's look at Centaurus A! t.co/EiH4etrbG9 🔗 science.nasa.gov/asset/webb...
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 25/09/2026
NASA has now confirmed all ground stations supporting the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope are ready to receive the mission’s high volume of data once science operations begin by early 2027. #NASARoman 🔭
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NASA’s Roman Team Confirms Ground Stations Receiving Data - NASA Science
NASA has now confirmed all ground stations supporting the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope are ready to receive the mission’s high volume of data
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 18/09/2026
Baltimore City Public Schools alumni carry a universe-sized impact. 🪐 Decades before contemporary engineers took the reins to operate cutting-edge observatories, City Schools trailblazers were pioneering technologies and shaping NASA's most critical missions.
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The Only Limit for City Schools Students Is the Stars: How Baltimore City Public Schools Alumni Are Shaping the Universe
Baltimore City Public Schools alumni carry a universe-sized impact. Decades before contemporary eng...
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AURA Astronomy @aura-astronomy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 22/09/2026
Planets beyond our Solar System are extremely difficult to observe. It’s equivalent to trying to take a photograph of a firefly next to a lighthouse from thousands of miles away. TONIGHT at 7 p.m. ET, STScI's Dr. Emily Rickman will chat about the Webb technology behind imaging alien worlds. 🔭
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How to Image Alien Worlds
Planets beyond our Solar System, known as exoplanets, are extremely difficult to observe. It's equivalent to trying to take a photograph of a firefly next to a lighthouse from thousands of miles away. The James Webb Space Telescope includes sophisticat...
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 18/09/2026
Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location at the edge of our Milky Way. It contains two massive molecular clouds from which clusters of stars are actively forming, as captured in this #NASAWebb image: bit.ly/4fRIdZ4
A star-forming region. At center right is a compact star cluster composed of luminous red, blue, and white points of light. Faint jets with clumpy, diffuse material extend in various directions from the bright cluster. Above and to the right is a smaller cluster of stars. Translucent red wisps of material stretch across the scene. Background galaxies are scattered across this swath of space, appearing as small blue-white and orange-white dots or fuzzy, thin disks.
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Roman for Scientists @nancyromansci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Roman had a bake-out. We had a bake-off. 🎂🚀 While #NASARoman warmed up to help release condensed gases, @stsci.edu staff fired up their ovens to lock in delicious flavors. The results were out of this world! 🔭🧁 #ExpandingOurView #GreatRomanBakeOff
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 16/09/2026
Hubble has observed many Messier catalog items over 35+ years, including the Orion Nebula, the Omega Nebula, globular star cluster Messier 75, and galaxy Messier 109. Scroll through Hubble’s Messier images, and find your favorite: go.nasa.gov/3Ui2kHl 🔭
Messier 42: A vibrant and colorful image of the Orion Nebula, showcasing swirling clouds of gas and dust in hues of purple, pink, and orange, dotted with bright stars. The nebula is set against a dark cosmic background.Messier 17: The Omega Nebula features a dense field of stars and interstellar dust clouds. The image showcases vibrant blues, with bright stars scattered throughout the nebula.Messier 75: A densely packed star cluster, known as Messier 75 (M75), fills the image. The center radiates brightly with numerous stars, surrounded by a halo of smaller, glimmering stars. The background is black.Messier 109: A large spiral galaxy with a bright core surrounded by swirling dust and stars. The image depicts various shades of blue, illustrating large dust lanes and bright groups of stars.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026
#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc
At the top, a grid of 21 panels shows a series of blue images with tiny neon green and yellow circles. A larger image highlights a section of the grid with circular patterns, and an inset presents a detailed star-like diffraction pattern. The colors consist of blue, green, and yellow.
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US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thanks to the efforts of our Engineering (and other) teams, Gemini South is going back to the sky tonight (Sep 15th) after the largest and most impactful winter storm to hit Chile since 1954! Let's hope for great weather and a safe return to operations! #astronomy
This image of the Gemini South telescope is so bright that it is hard to believe it was captured at night. Gemini South is the southern half of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab. The wedge-shaped light on the right side of the photo is not from an artificial source (although there are city lights below it), but is a natural phenomenon known as zodiacal light. This occurs when sunlight scatters off dust particles in the plane of our Solar System, illuminating part of the sky after sundown or before sunrise. The zodiac is a belt-shaped region of the sky, as seen from Earth, and the apparent path of the planets. Gemini Observatory is named after one section of the zodiacal belt: Gemini, the constellation of the Twins.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026
“As a result of exquisite planning by our orbital dynamics team, brilliant execution by the operations team, and a precise launch from SpaceX, Roman has fuel for at least 22 years of potential science operations,” said Jamie Dunn, center director at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. #NASARoman 🔭
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Fuel Savings Double Potential Lifetime for NASA's Roman Mission - NASA Science
The results are in: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's very accurate first mid-course correction, along with other fuel savings, are expected to more
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026
This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 sits just 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. Cold clouds of molecular hydrogen gas collapse to form new stars, creating glowing, sculpted scenes like this one. (1/5) 🧵 🔭
A star-forming region. The left two thirds is blanketed in thick clouds of green and yellow gas and dust that form swirling patterns. Some of the gas is spread into thin, thread-like wisps. The right third shows a black background speckled with stars and multi-colored dots that are distant galaxies. Bright stars are scattered throughout the clouds, with the densest cluster situated in the center. Each is crowned with six long spikes and two shorter spikes created by the optics of the telescope’s mirrors. In the upper right, a couple of hidden stars blast out long, glowing jets of material that glow in blue.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 09/09/2026
“Hubble and Webb are like looking through a keyhole at an individual object,” says Kristen McQuinn, who heads the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission office at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “With Roman, it’s like opening the door, and now you see everything." 🔭 #NASARoman
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How Roman will unlock the universe
This next-generation space telescope will blow past its predecessors to answer questions about everything from stars and planets to dark matter and dark energy.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 10/09/2026
#NASAWebb is already helping scientists advance our knowledge about the life cycle of stars. How do stars form? Why do stars form in groups? What role do black holes play in the evolution of stars in galaxies? ➡️ go.nasa.gov/4fHCSDK 🔭
At the center is a thin vertical cloud known as Lynds 483 that is shaped like an hourglass with irregular edges. At lower center are two discrete bright white, tiny blobs of light that have raced away from the hidden central stars. The top lobe shows a more prominent orange U-shape. Orange bleeds into light purple, and brighter pink at its edges. Some background stars are visible through sections of this lobe. Higher up, there is an orange arc. Some brighter pink material extends to the top edges near the center. In the lower lobe, less orange is visible. More opaque light purple is in its top third, rippling out into semi-transparent blues and pinks. The lower lobe has more texture. V-shapes left and right of the lobes are darkest, and the background stars in these areas appear orange. Elsewhere, the black background of space is clearer, speckled with tiny white stars and faint orange galaxies.
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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nice overview of the JWST Chariklo paper by David Chandler in @skyandtelescope.bsky.social ... Last quote by me is a foreshadowing of JWST's capabilities for the suite of Uranus occultations coming in the coming decade! skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
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Webb Telescope Discovers Surprising Changes in an Asteroid’s Rings
Painstaking observations have revealed unexpected evolution in the rings around Chariklo, a tiny outer-solar-system object.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 08/09/2026
OPPORTUNITY: The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, is seeking a Division Head for Platform Engineering to enable modern, scalable, secure, and mission-aligned engineering and operations across the Institute: bit.ly/4xe7cLG
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 08/09/2026
Just a normal camera, if “normal” means: 🔭 A 3.2-billion-pixel sensor 🌌 A field of view that could fit ~45 full Moons ⏱️ A new 8-gigabyte image every ~40 seconds NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera is the largest ever built (thanks SLAC!). Ok, maybe that's not normal. 🔭🧪
Technician in cleanroom suit inspecting a large, cylindrical camera barrel inside a clean room.Close-up of a Romanesco broccoli head showing its intricate fractal pattern in black and white. The mosaic grid of LSST Camera's ~200 individual CCDs is visible as vertical and horizontal black lines.Workers in safety gear guide the car-sized LSST Camera suspended by green straps inside Rubin's large maintenance hall.Close-up view of the huge LSST Camera installed at the center of Rubin's 8.4-meter telescope, with metal scaffolding on either side.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 09/09/2026
#NASARoman is currently on its way to L2 where gravitational forces balance to keep objects in steady orbits with very little assistance. The animation begins shortly after launch and concludes with Roman entering its halo orbit around L2. Keep up with commissioning: go.nasa.gov/4gS6Zrb 🔭
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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hot off the press! JWST 🔭 reveals surprising changes in the double-ring system surrounding distant Chariklo! The data were part of my JWST GTO time, and the awesome international team was led by @psantossanz.bsky.social. Congrats, Pablo and all! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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JWST stellar occultation reveals unexpected changes in Chariklo’s ring system
Ring systems have been found around several small bodies in the outer Solar System through stellar occultations. While such observations provide constraints on ring geometry and dynamical interactions...
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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Where is the Roman Space Telescope heading? The Sun-Earth Lagrange 2 point ("L2"), where it will occupy a different orbit than its big brother, JWST. See image (which cites me as a content consultant). More at: www.scientificamerican.com/article/wher...
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 02/09/2026
Meet Saturn’s decagon, seen in recent images from Hubble. The new 10-sided atmospheric wave at the planet’s southern pole resembles the famous hexagon at the Saturn’s northern pole, but is also distinct: news.stsci.edu/4g9Gm1U
Side-by-side comparison of two views of the gas giant Saturn, labeled “August 29, 2025” at the top left corner. At left is a straight-on view of Saturn, a globe with pale yellow horizontal bands at the equator and orange and pink at the mid-latitudes. Some bands towards the north and south pole have a light blue hue. There are prominent horizontal rings circling at the equator. At right, labeled “Saturn’s south pole,” the south-polar view of Saturn shows concentric bands in its atmosphere, mostly tan and orange, surrounding a dark central region that has a 10-sided outline. A small, dashed circle at the very center of the pole with an “X” inside denotes missing data.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 03/09/2026
In collaboration with STScI, the Brinson Prize Fellowship Program applications open on Thursday, September 10, 2026, for early-career astrophysicists and cosmologists. More info: bit.ly/4wc1Pfx 🧪 🔭
The words “The Brinson Foundation” in white on a sea green background. A diamond-shaped logo in gold sits to the left of the words.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 03/09/2026
NASA launched its newest space telescope, undertaking its biggest mission yet to study the universe on a much larger scale. #NASARoman will allow scientists to get panoramic views of space and better understand the nature of powerful forces known as dark energy and dark matter. 🔭
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How NASA's new space telescope could help solve mysteries of dark energy and dark matter
NASA launched its newest space telescope, undertaking its biggest mission yet to study the universe on a much larger scale. A roughly $4 billion project, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will allow scientists to get panoramic views of space and bet...
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 04/09/2026
#NASAWebb, Hubble, and ALMA combined their strengths (infrared, visible, and radio) so scientists could study protoplanetary disk Oph 163131’s structure. Small dust grains create purple arcs, larger dust grains are yellow regions. Credit: ESA, NASA, CSA, ALMA, M. Villenave. 🧪
Oph 163131, a nearly edge-on protoplanetary disk around a newly formed star. The disk, which is small and at the center, looks like a flattened hamburger bun: two flat, purple lobes have a bright, thin vertical disk in the center. The whole protoplanetary disk glows brightly, shining bands of green, blue, and red into space around it. Surrounding the disk, against the black background of space, are several stars that appear as white dots. Distant galaxies also appear as dark orange spirals and other smaller shapes fading into the black background.
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 04/09/2026
Clouds during the day☁️, clear at night🌌 That's a common pattern at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory. Daytime heating lifts cool, moist marine air into clouds. After sunset, the air re-settles into the valleys, leaving clear skies for observing! 🔭🧪 🎥 NSF–DOE RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 04/09/2026
Severe Storm Impacting NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory Operations in Chile- September 4 Update Following the severe storm that affected Chile’s Coquimbo Region in July, restoration & maintenance work continues at AURA/NSF NOIRLab’s observatory sites, which includes Rubin Observatory. 🧪🔭
Two workers in safety gear doing maintenance work on top of Rubin's silver dome, overlooking snowy mountain peaks under a cloudy sky. Snow patches around a brown dirt road leading to the Cerro Pachón lodging buildings under a clear blue sky.
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AURA Astronomy @aura-astronomy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Like PB&J - better together!
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 08/09/2026
To shed light on an early stage of planet building in our solar system, Hubble and #NASAWebb examined Trans-Neptunian Objects—mysterious, frozen planetary building blocks that never formed into planets. This is the deepest such survey to date: news.stsci.edu/4zX3fgY 🔭
An illustration of a roughly spherical, rocky object against a black background speckled with distant, white stars. The rocky object is the color of red clay and is pockmarked with craters and other geological scars. At the bottom left corner of the illustration in gray lettering is the label “Artist’s Concept.
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AURA Astronomy @aura-astronomy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 01/09/2026
We need your eyes! 🖥️ Introducing Rubin: Blobs and Blurs, a new citizen science project using NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data. 🔭🧪 We’re on the hunt for faint, blurry galaxies that are dominated by invisible dark matter & often hard for computers to identify. zooniverse.org/rubin
A promotional graphic in bilingual English and Spanish titled "NEW Rubin Citizen Science Project on Zooniverse." The center features an astronomical image filled with stars and galaxies of varying shapes, sizes, and colors. A large teal ring labeled "RUBIN BLOBS AND BLURS," magnifies a faint, smooth galaxy. Below on a charcoal background, text reads "Help discover some of the faintest galaxies in the Universe! zooniverse.org/rubin" (and also in Spanish).
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 31/08/2026
🌟 Calling educators in Latin America who teach astronomy: This opportunity is for you! Applications for Summer Stars LATAM 2026 are now open! 🔭🧪 📍 La Serena, Chile | Cerro Pachón | Cerro Tololo 📅 Dec. 14–18, 2026 ⏰ Applications open through Sep. 21 ls.st/2026
Group of people in front of a large white observatory building under a clear blue sky.Three people at a conference table with laptops, engaged in discussion while a woman in a blue shirt stands behind and leans in.Group of people posing inside the dome of a large observatory with a big telescope behind them.Group of people wearing yellow hard hats and reflective vests posing for a group photo inside a room with concrete walls.
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