James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

[Julsey]

But are there Vulcans out there? That is the question! 🧐

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NASA’s Hubble Sees White Dwarf Eating Piece of Pluto-Like Object
By Goddard Space Centre 18 Sept 2025

Summary
Only Hubble with its unique ultraviolet vision could see this event

A celestial meal is taking place, and only the Hubble Space Telescope caught the feast in action. Just 260 light-years away — close in cosmic terms — a burned-out star called a white dwarf is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. The Pluto analog came from the system’s own version of the Kuiper Belt, an icy ring of debris that encircles our solar system. As the exo-Pluto wandered too close to the star, the white dwarf tore it apart and began snacking on it.

Thanks to its unique ultraviolet vision, only Hubble could identify this event. Scientists using Hubble analyzed the chemical composition of the doomed object as its pieces fell onto the white dwarf. They were surprised to find water and other icy content indicating that the object came from far out in the system’s Kuiper Belt analog. Without Hubble’s ultraviolet capability, this material — unseen in visible light — would not have been detected.

 

Full Article:
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-sees-white-dwarf-eating-piece-of-pluto-like-object/

 

Video Link:

 

 

Pic Description: 
This artist’s concept shows a white dwarf surrounded by a large debris disk. Debris from pieces of a captured, Pluto-like object is falling onto the white dwarf.

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Soar through 44 million stars in Gaia telescope's latest 3D map of our galaxy — Space photo of the week

By Sophie Berdugo published 4 hours ago

 

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

 

Link to article:

https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/soar-through-44-million-stars-in-gaia-telescopes-latest-3d-map-of-our-galaxy-space-photo-of-the-week

 

Video link:

[A 2 1/2 min zoom-in and fly-through galaxies.]

https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/jlagFZdN

 

More info and pics on the Pismis 24:

[Incl 122.4MB wallpaper file. Lol]

https://esawebb.org/images/weic2518a/

 

 

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NASA's Webb Explores Largest Star-Forming Cloud in Milky Way

September 24, 2025 10:00am Release ID: 2025-141

 

Summary

The galactic center is packed with star-making material — why isn’t it producing more stars? Webb could reveal long-sought answers.

 

Sagittarius B2 is the Milky Way galaxy’s most massive and active star forming cloud, producing half of the stars created in the galactic center region despite having only 10 percent of the area’s star-making material. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals stunning new views of the region, using both its near-infrared and mid-infrared instruments, to capture both its colorful stars and gaseous stellar nurseries in unprecedented detail. Astronomers think that analysis of Webb’s data will help unravel enduring mysteries of the star formation process, and why Sagittarius B2 is forming so many more stars than the rest of the galactic center...

 

Astronomers hope Webb will shed light on why star formation in the galactic center is so disproportionately low. Though the region is stocked with plenty of gaseous raw material, on the whole it is not nearly as productive as Sagittarius B2. While Sagittarius B2 has only 10 percent of the galactic center’s gas, it produces 50 percent of its stars. 

 

“Humans have been studying the stars for thousands of years, and there is still a lot to understand,” said Nazar Budaiev, a graduate student at the University of Florida and the co-principal investigator of the study. “For everything new Webb is showing us, there are also new mysteries to explore, and it’s exciting to be a part of that ongoing discovery.”

 

Full Article:

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-explores-largest-star-forming-cloud-in-milky-way/

 

Pic A Description: 

Stars, gas and cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud glow in near-infrared light, captured by Webb’s NIRCam instrument. The darkest areas of the image are not empty space but are areas where stars are still forming inside dense clouds that block their light.

 

Pic B Description: 

Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) region in mid-infrared light, with warm dust glowing brightly. To the right is one clump of clouds that captured astronomers’ attention. It is redder than the rest of the clouds in the image and corresponds to an area that other telescopes have shown to be one of the most molecularly rich regions known. Additional analysis of this intriguing region could yield important insights into why Sgr B2 is so much more productive in making stars than the rest of the galactic center.

 

Only the brightest stars in this region emit mid-infrared light that can be picked up by Webb’s MIRI instrument, which is why this image has so many fewer stars than that captured by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera). The darkest areas of the image are not empty space but areas where cosmic dust and gas are so dense that light cannot penetrate them to reach the telescope.

 

[Pic C Side-by-side Note: There is a curtain/slide feature available via the article. ]

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Not Spiral. Not Elliptical. So What Exactly Is This Galaxy?

By ESA/Hubble September 23, 2025

 

NGC 2775, a galaxy 67 million light-years away, is puzzling astronomers with its mix of traits.

 

The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new Picture of the Week, and this time the spotlight is on a galaxy that refuses to fit neatly into any category. The subject, known as NGC 2775, is located about 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (The Crab). At its center lies a smooth, gas-free core that looks strikingly similar to an elliptical galaxy. Surrounding it, however, is a dusty ring sprinkled with uneven clusters of young stars, giving it the appearance of a spiral galaxy. So what is it exactly: spiral, elliptical — or something in between?

 

Because astronomers can only observe NGC 2775 from a single perspective, its true nature remains uncertain. Some scientists argue that it should be considered a spiral galaxy due to its delicate ring of dust and stars. Others, however, classify it as a lenticular galaxy, a transitional type that shares characteristics of both spirals and ellipticals.

 

Full Article:

https://scitechdaily.com/not-spiral-not-elliptical-so-what-exactly-is-this-galaxy/

 

Pic Description: 

NGC 2775 blurs the line between spiral and elliptical galaxies, leaving astronomers debating its true identity. Hubble’s latest view reveals evidence of past mergers and active hydrogen gas clouds that add to the mystery.

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NASA's Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet

September 29, 2025 10:00am Release ID: 2025-142

 

Summary

The disk offers insight into how the moons of solar system gas giants like Jupiter might have formed.

 

Our solar system contains eight major planets, and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of these planets. Where did they all come from? There are multiple formation mechanisms. The case for large moons, like the four Galilean satellites around Jupiter, is that they condensed out of a dust and gas disk encircling the planet when it formed. But that would have happened over 4 billion years ago, and there is scant forensic evidence today.

 

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct view of material in a disk around a large exoplanet, which is located over 625 light-years away. This disk is a possible construction yard for moons. Moons likely outnumber planets in our galaxy, and some might be habitats for life as we know it. So, understanding formation scenarios for moons is critical.

 

Full Article:

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-telescope-studies-moon-forming-disk-around-massive-planet/

 

Pic Description: 

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope suggests the disk contains the raw materials for moon formation: diacetylene, hydrogen cyanide, propyne, acetylene, ethane, carbon dioxide, and benzene. The planet appears at lower right, while its host star and surrounding circumstellar disk are visible in the background.

[just1-4all]

FYI for all you space nuts (... like me! 🙂) :

 

On Zoom today(sorry, late notice for today's), tomorrow, and Monday at 1 pm EST (Oct 5, 6, 7) a new presentation, "In the Beginning", from the brothers and sisters at Museum Bible Tours https://museumbibletours.com/virtual-tours . Like our meetings, they are free to the public (donation-supported) and no collections taken. Q & A with the host follow these presentations. Learn, have fun, enjoy meeting new brothers and sisters from all over the world. 

[just1-4all]

2 hours ago, just1-4all said:

On Zoom today(sorry, late notice for today's), tomorrow, and Monday at 1 pm EST (Oct 5, 6, 7)

Oops! Correction: 1 pm GMT-7 and 4 pm EST, not  1 pm EST

 

Sorry about that. 😯

[just1-4all]

Start time for other time zones for "In the Beginning" presentation: 

 

1:00 PM Los Angeles

4:00 PM New York

9:00 PM London

10:00 PM Berlin/Vienna

7:00 AM Sydney (next day)

 

(Sorry for the Eastern-Standard-Time-centric thinking 🙄)

[Julsey]

9 hours ago, just1-4all said:

FYI for all you space nuts (... like me! 🙂) :

 

On Zoom today(sorry, late notice for today's), tomorrow, and Monday at 1 pm EST (Oct 5, 6, 7) a new presentation, "In the Beginning", from the brothers and sisters at Museum Bible Tours https://museumbibletours.com/virtual-tours . Like our meetings, they are free to the public (donation-supported) and no collections taken. Q & A with the host follow these presentations. Learn, have fun, enjoy meeting new brothers and sisters from all over the world. 

I didn’t know about these tours, so thank you!

[just1-4all]

19 hours ago, Julsey said:

thank you!

You're very welcome 😊