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Mission Operations Center for NASA's Webb Space Telescope (#NASAWebb). Science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope and upcoming Roman Space Telescope.
Baltimore, MD
Joined June 2008
Are you looking for our Public Lecture Series? The 2024 and 2025 lectures are now available on this YouTube channel playlist.
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The STScI Public Lectures Series held monthly presentations on all aspects of astronomy and space telescopes for several decades. Due to changes in funding, ...
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Eta Carinae is famous for a brilliant and unusual outburst observed in the 1840s. This visualization presents the story of that event and examines the resulting multiwavelength emissions and three-dimensional structures surrounding Eta Car today. https://t.co/O2kp63odKT
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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft + asteroid moon Dimorphos = an impact captured by #NASAWebb. This in-space planetary defense test was also observed by Hubble, revealing a scene of scientific intrigue: https://t.co/Z6c6MRBZ2M 🔭 🧪
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Black holes galore! That’s what astronomers discovered when #NASAWebb peered into the distant cosmos. These smaller, fainter black holes are more similar to the one in our own galaxy. With Webb, scientists can study the black hole-galaxy relationship over time. Credit: STScI.
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Two views: one serene and the other with teeming with meaning! #NASAWebb “weighed” the Bullet Cluster, measuring its two galaxy clusters and refining the dark matter mass (shown in blue). X-rays (pink) from @chandraxray show the bullet: https://t.co/4oxvlTks3l
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Why do some rocky planets have atmospheres when others don’t? #NASAWebb and Hubble space telescopes are teaming up to find out. ➡️ https://t.co/OtqQs1dg80 🔭 🧪
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Flocculent spirals, like NGC 2090, seen in this #NASAWebb image, are one of the more common types of spiral galaxies. They have patchy arms that seemingly blend together and disconnect in spots. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy. 🔭 🧪
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#NASAWebb is clearing up some mysteries about star formation thanks to its infrared capabilities—ideal for seeing the coolest, dimmest stars. ✨ Building on Hubble’s look at the Flame Nebula, Webb revealed new details, including the region’s low mass objects.
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Columbia University's Kishalay De spoke about efforts toward conducting an all-sky survey of infrared variability, and gave an overview of upcoming infrared surveys, including the first look into the high redshift dusty universe with #NASARoman, today at STScI. 🔭 🧪
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Explore the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula and the various ways that stars and dust are intertwined in the process of star formation. https://t.co/h3AW0BFOhq
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Sagittarius B2, the most active star-forming region in the heart of our Milky Way, looks dramatically different depending on the light. The near-infrared light captured by #NASAWebb’s NIRCam shows thousands of colorful stars. https://t.co/bRZydhJ3VU
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☄️ #3I/ATLAS comet update! On 3 October, our ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) turned its eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed close to Mars. Together with Mars Express, ExoMars TGO had the closest view of the comet of all of our spacecraft. It looked towards the
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Can a small planet maintain an atmosphere in the blazing light of a small, cool red dwarf star? #NASAWebb and Hubble are teaming up for a Rocky Worlds program designed to understand the most common type of planetary system in the galaxy: https://t.co/S00MH7KLlU
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In this Halloween edition of NASA’s Universe of Learning Science Briefings, you will hear about vampire stars, “Black Widow” pulsars destroying their companions, and dark energy: https://t.co/1wEgOSkvRf 🔭 🧪
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With #NASAWebb’s infrared sensitivity, astronomers can parse exoplanet atmospheres in great detail, leading to new insights. For example, Webb’s detection of carbon dioxide in system HR 8799’s planets suggests these worlds formed similarly to Jupiter and Saturn. Credit: STScI
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Share the Gemini constellation in three dimensions with all of your friends across all platforms using our YouTube link! https://t.co/dBu4BEnVH5
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Katherine de Kleer, from the California Institute of Technology, spoke today at the Space Telescope Science Institute about how the ALMA (sub-)millimeter observatory and #NASAWebb are shedding light on the heat flow histories of satellites and small planetary bodies. 🔭 🧪
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Watch as the familiar pattern of the Gemini constellation on the sky distorts into a whole new perspective when seen in three dimensions. As the camera pans up, the Gemini takes center stage with its brightest stars, Castor and Pollux, at the top. 🔭 🧪
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Focus on the bright red dot at the center: #NASAWebb showed this galaxy existed 330 million years after the big bang—when the universe was thought to be “bathed” in a thick fog: https://t.co/9Cy7FPpYCC 🔭 🧪
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The circle of life moves us all, including the Cartwheel Galaxy, which is the result of a larger spiral galaxy and a smaller galaxy colliding about 400 million years ago. #NASAWebb highlights the dust in red and star formation regions in blue. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
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