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  1. NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects Release date: 29 July 2026 10am ID: 2026-109 What do little red dots become as the universe ages? Itโ€™s been a question since they were discovered in the high-redshift universe by NASAโ€™s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. With each additional observation and analysis, astronomers have gradually learned more about the nature of these mysterious red sources. A team of scientists is now providing one branch of the little red dot family tree by sifting through multi-mission telescope data to carefully examine a spiral galaxy at lower redshift. The face-on galaxy, dubbed the โ€œSaguaroโ€ for its prominent arms, is reminiscent of the desert plant in another way: Like the ruby red fruit of the Saguaro cactus, this galaxy has a little red dot in its center, making it a scene ripe for study. Article link: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-explores-family-tree-of-newly-discovered-distant-objects/ Pic Description [Top]: Scientists have proposed one pathway little red dots can follow as the universe matures based on their analysis of spiral galaxy WISEA J123635.56+621424.2, nicknamed the โ€œSaguaro.โ€ They suggest little red dots may be a temporary phase of highly active supermassive black holes. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Pierluigi Rinaldi (Steward Observatory); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Pic Description [Bottom]: Scientists synthetically shifted the Saguaro, a lower-redshift spiral galaxy, to a higher redshift to find out how it would appear if it was in the early universe. Its compact red appearance suggests that little red dots are a phase of highly active supermassive black holes. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Pierluigi Rinaldi (Steward Observatory); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI); Illustration: Leah Hustak (STScI)
  2. NASA's Hubble Shows Star Formation in Andromeda Galaxy Winding Down Release date: 27 July 2026 10am ID: 2026-019 Most of the decline is within a prominent star-forming ring 32,000 light-years from the galaxyโ€™s center. The Andromeda galaxy is one of our Milky Wayโ€™s closest neighbors. Its proximity gives astronomers an opportunity to investigate it in great detail. NASAโ€™s Hubble Space Telescope has conducted two gigantic surveys that combined to image about two-thirds of the galaxyโ€™s disk. Using that data, a team of researchers has measured 200 million individual stars to tease out the history of star formation in Andromeda. They found that star formation has decreased dramatically over the past 500 million years. And they asked: Is Andromeda in the late stages of a longer decline, or is it โ€œrunning out of gasโ€? โ€œThis project is the combination of multiple decades worth of experience to really get a holistic picture of the Andromeda galaxy,โ€ said lead author Tobin Wainer of the University of Washington. Article link: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-shows-star-formation-in-andromeda-galaxy-winding-down/ Video Description: This movie, created from an analysis of data from NASAโ€™s Hubble Space Telescope, demonstrates how the rate of star formation in the Andromeda galaxy has declined over the past 500 million years. Brighter colors indicate where star formation was highest during a given time. Researchers combined two Hubble surveys that together imaged about two-thirds of the disk of Andromeda. They divided the image into thousands of squares 300 light-years on a side and determined the history of star formation within each parcel. They found that star formation has been steadily declining. Pic Description: NASAโ€™s Hubble Space Telescope has provided a detailed view of millions of stars in the Andromeda galaxy. Regions that have experienced recent star formation (1) appear significantly bluer than regions with less recent star formation (2). NASA, ESA, Benjamin Williams (UWashington), Zhuo Chen (UWashington), L. Clifton Johnson (Northwestern); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) STScI-01KY7FSW9S0TZ25DQFQ0WX020P.mp4
  3. Galaxy cluster's magnetic field reconstructed for 1st time with By Robert Lea Published 21 July 2026 A record-breaking astronomy map. "We believe that the mechanism that 'turns on' these gigantic radio emissions is linked to the formation process of galaxy clusters." For the first time, astronomers have reconstructed the magnetic field of an entire cluster of galaxies, from its central nucleus to its outer limits. The record-breaking achievement is the product of the deepest-ever observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2255, located around a billion light-years away โ€” and those observations are thanks to the European radio telescope LOFAR (Low Frequency Array). Abell 2255 has long been known for its complexity in radio waves. Its vast, diffuse radio emissions are created by particles called electrons racing at near-light, or relativistic, speeds and interacting with magnetic fields of galaxies in the cluster. Thus, using Abell 2255 as a cosmic laboratory to study the universe in radio waves could lead scientists to a better understanding of how magnetic fields come about and evolve. These observations could also help paint a picture of the dynamics of hot gas in galaxy clusters. This could reveal how the largest structures in the universe are constructed. Article link: https://www.space.com/astronomy/galaxies/galaxy-clusters-magnetic-field-reconstructed-for-1st-time-with-record-breaking-astronomy-map Pic Description: The invisible texture of the magnetic field in the central region of the galaxy cluster Abell 2255. (Image credit: A. Botteon et al. (INAF), A&A 2026)
  4. They have a million dollar Ai studio. There is really nothing they cannot do. (The predecessor to this Ai technology was used to film the space series The Mandalorian. That was set in a Galaxy far, far away.) However, they use it sparingly. They want the depictions to be as natural as possible.
  5. NASA's Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System Release date: 15 July 2026 8am ID: 2026-126 Planet found through its atmospheric fingerprint opens new way to uncover worlds hidden in starlight Few planetary systems have shaped astronomersโ€™ understanding of planet formation as profoundly as Beta Pictoris. Since the discovery of its famous debris disk in 1983, observations with ground- and space-based telescopes, including NASAโ€™s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, have revealed exocomets, intricate dust structure, giant exoplanets, and evidence of a planetary system still under construction. Now, Webb has uncovered a third giant planet using an entirely new approach: identifying it through the chemical fingerprint of its atmosphere. Article link: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2026/news-2026-126/ Pic Description: This artistโ€™s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the right. It has the widest orbit of the known three exoplanets within the system.Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
  6. NASAโ€™s Roman Telescope Will Spot Distant Black Holes That Shred Stars Release date: 14 July 2026 10am ID: 2026-203 Romanโ€™s large tally will help illuminate the origins of supermassive black holes Summary Romanโ€™s large tally will help illuminate the origins of supermassive black holes. Supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies can be messy eaters. Sometimes when a wandering star gets too close, it will get shredded before it is consumed. In the process, the region around the black hole brightens and may outshine its entire galaxy. In that way, otherwise hidden black holes become detectable. Once it launches as early as Aug. 30, 2026, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to observe up to 100 of these star-shredding events every year. That data will lead to a new understanding of how supermassive black holes first formed, and how they grow and evolve. Article Link: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2026/news-2026-203/ Pic Description: This artistโ€™s concept portrays a Sun-like star being shredded by a supermassive black hole โ€” a phenomenon known as a tidal disruption event. During these events, the region around a black hole can brighten and become visible across great distances. NASAโ€™s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to spot and study tidal disruption events that occurred early in the universeโ€™s history. By characterizing an earlier population of supermassive black holes, astronomers can learn about their origins. Image Credit: NASA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
  7. Hubble Discovers First of Star Clusterโ€™s Missing Black Holes Release date: 13 July 2026 10am ID: 2026-017 Call it the case of the missing black holes. While models suggest globular star cluster Omega Centauri should contain about 10,000 stellar-mass black holes, none have been detected yet. Recently a team of astronomers located the first stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri as it is orbited by a lower-mass visible star. By tracking this star's motion on the sky using hundreds of images taken over 20 years by NASAโ€™s Hubble Space Telescope and more recent images from NASAโ€™s James Webb Space Telescope, they were able to weigh the unseen companion and determine it is indeed a black hole. However, its long period and low mass were surprising for a black hole in this massive star cluster. Article link: https://esahubble.org/news/heic2610/ Pan Video: Pic Description: TheOmega Centauri is visible from Earth with the naked eye and is one of the favourite celestial objects for stargazers in the southern hemisphere. Although the cluster is 17 000 light-years away, lying just above the plane of the Milky Way, it appears almost as large as the full Moon when seen from a dark rural area. The exact classification of Omega Centauri has evolved through time, as our ability to study it has improved. It was first listed in Ptolemy's catalogue nearly two thousand years ago as a single star. Edmond Halley reported it as a nebula in 1677, and in the 1830s the English astronomer John Herschel was the first to recognise it as a globular cluster. Omega Centauri consists of roughly 10 million stars that are gravitationally bound. Credit: NASA & ESA, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble) Music: Stellardrone - Eden
  8. Webb uncovers unusual galaxy shaped by cosmic collision 6 July 2026 10am weic2615 โ€” Photo Release ID: 2026-120 In new images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to celebrate its fourth science anniversary, a familiar galaxy transforms into something far richer, and far more complex, than ever seen before. Webbโ€™s unprecedented sensitivity across near- and mid-infrared wavelengths cuts through the thick lanes of dust that obscure Centaurus Aโ€™s centre in visible light, showing a densely packed tapestry of individual stars and an active, everchanging galaxy. These images mark four years of better-than-anticipated performance and successful science operations for the most powerful space telescope in history. Centaurus A (also known as NGC 5128) is 11 million light-years away from Earth, relatively close in cosmic terms. Yet, unlike most nearby galaxies, it is very active, making it a powerful laboratory for understanding how galaxies and black holes grow and evolve together. At its core sits a supermassive black hole actively feeding on surrounding material. As it does, the black hole launches powerful jets and releases enormous amounts of energy, shaping the galaxy around it. At the same time, Centaurus A bears the scars of a dramatic past: a major collision with another galaxy roughly two billion years ago. The aftermath of that merger is still visible today in its unusual structure and ongoing star formation. Visible light observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope could not reveal the central region where dust blocked the view, while NASAโ€™s retired Spitzer Space Telescope revealed large scale structures in the infrared without resolving individual stars. Now, Webb brings both clarity and depth, exposing the galaxyโ€™s inner workings star by star. Article Link: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-uncovers-unusual-galaxy-shaped-by-cosmic-collision/ Pic Description [Top]: NASAโ€™s James Webb Space Telescopeโ€™s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, exposing the dusty structures and hidden activity that shape this unusual system. Webbโ€™s infrared vision unveils intricate filaments, loops, and glowing clouds of warm dust stretching across its center. At the heart of the galaxy, an actively feeding supermassive black hole shines brightly, surrounded by complex structures sculpted by a past galactic collision and ongoing activity. Pic Description [Middle]: What may first appear as a grainy glow is actually a dense field of millions of individually resolved stars. By distinguishing different generations of stars embedded throughout the dusty center, Webb gives astronomers new clues to the galaxyโ€™s history and the processes that continue to shape it. Pic Description [Bottom]: A ground-based image of nearby galaxy Centaurus A from the European Southern Observatory (top left) puts the near-infrared and mid-infrared views from NASAโ€™s James Webb Space Telescope image into context. Images: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Macarena Garcia Marin (ESA Office at STScI)
  9. "Indescribable free gift" search options. May I put forward some suggestions. I am not sure if you want to search the 'topic' or search for exactly the same phrase or words in the NWT or other translations. The first step is to type the words in the search section at the top. (Pic-1) This gives 3 search sections: Top verses; All verses; Articles This will find the exact match (Pic-2) And also some articles (Pic-3) The quickest search for information specific to the verse, is to press on the '๐Ÿ’Ž' (Gem) logo. (Pic-4) This opens the side (or secondary) pane specific to this verse. (Pic-5) There you can find articles, topics and referenced scriptures. A final option: If you are in a verse (like Pic-2), you can also press and hold on the word. This pops up a box. (Pic-6) Move to the right arrow, and it will show an option called "Topic". This too will give insight to the verse and 'Topics'. I hope this helps. (There may be others too. These are the ones I use.) And you also can go out of the app to the WOL (online library), and search online there. (Pic-8) This will also allow examination of the word search and index search as well as the scripture index. There are many powerful operators (and/or *) and search options available online. I think there is a video on these online search options. (And I think they work on the CD/DVD version as well.)
  10. NASAโ€™s Webb Reveals Stars Sparking to Life in Cosmic Celebration Release date: 2 July 2026 10am: ID 2026-124 NASAโ€™s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared light of numerous features that previously were impossible to see beyond the thick dust of the FS Tau star system. In addition to myriad background galaxies that burst into view like fireworks for the United Statesโ€™ 250th anniversary celebrations, this image flickers with a number of protostars, or baby stars that are formed from dense pockets of gas and dust. These hot, clumpy, and low-mass objects eventually will become full-fledged stars capable of burning hydrogen in their cores, like our Sun. The protostars of FS Tau are about 1 to 3 million years old, which is relatively young in cosmic scales. Our Sun, by contrast, is 4.6 billion years old. Low-mass stars emit less radiation and have less energetic stellar winds than those with larger masses, which means they disrupt their environment at a much lower level. This makes the FS Tau region incredibly useful for studying low-mass star evolution without the same level of environmental interference seen near higher-mass stars. A pair of protostars that creates the largest diffraction pattern seen slightly to the left of center in the image, called FS Tau A, is about half the mass of our Sun. Article Link: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-reveals-stars-sparking-to-life-in-cosmic-celebration/ Pic Description: In infrared light, NASAโ€™s James Webb Space Telescope reveals bright protostars in star system. FS Tau A, a pair of protostars that creates the largest diffraction pattern slightly to the left of center, is about half the mass of our Sun. FS Tau B, the orange protostar slightly right of center, is thought to be responsible for the red (molecular hydrogen) and orange (soot-like molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) outflows that we see amid the dusty region. The blue ridges are areas where light has been scattered by dust. The different colors of the background galaxies indicate how much dust is in front of them, as dust both absorbs and scatters light. Redder galaxies lie behind larger amounts of dust, yellower galaxies lie behind thinner layers of dust, and whiter galaxies are mostly unobstructed. Pic 2 [Bottom] A comparison between the observations of FS Tau by NASAโ€™s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. Hubbleโ€™s visible-light view shows the star-forming region mostly obscured by thick dust. Webb sees through the dust, revealing how the protostars are shaping their surroundings. Images Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
  11. Hubble Details Early Galaxy Transforming Neighborhood 23 June 2026 10am Release ID: 2026-014 Researchers show that a galaxyโ€™s young, tightly packed stars converted nearby gas from opaque to clear only 1.4 billion years after the big bang. Astronomers have demonstrated how one galaxy that existed when the cosmos was only 1.4 billion years old transformed the gas in and around itself: Light from its young, massive, closely clustered stars blasted through opaque, electrically neutral gas, causing it to ionize and clear. This galaxy, cataloged MXDFz4.4, lived at a time when a universal event known as the Era of Reionization was wrapping up. MXDFz4.4 is the earliest of its kind. It is the only galaxy at this distance to date that appears in a deep Hubble Space Telescope survey in a particular visible-light filter that uniquely captures the energetic light escaping from its young stars. โ€œHubble returned the only view that shows the galaxyโ€™s ionizing photons โ€” light capable of clearing the โ€˜fogโ€™ in and around the galaxy,โ€ explained Ilias Goovaerts, the first author of a new paper in the Astrophysical Journal and a postdoctoral fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland. Article link: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2026/news-2026-014/ Pic Description: Detailed visible-light images from Hubble reveal that several bursts of younger stars cleared the space in and around galaxy MXDFz4.4. Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain this transition โ€” and Hubble has provided the first example in this time period. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ilias Goovaerts (STScI), Marc Rafelski (STScI, JHU), Anton Koekemoer (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

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