Inbox Astronomy: 2026 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize Awarded to STScI Astronomer Kailash Sahu

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2026 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize Awarded to STScI Astronomer Kailash Sahu

Release date: Thursday, January 8, 2026 10:15:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

The award recognizes an outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics.

Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, will receive the 2026 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize from the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The prize, which is awarded every two years, recognizes an outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics of an exceptionally creative or innovative character.

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Inbox Astronomy: Scientists Identify 'Astronomy=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_Platypus'_with_NASA=E2=80=99s_?=Webb Telescope

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Scientists Identify 'Astronomy’s Platypus' with NASA’s Webb Telescope

Release date: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 12:16:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

A small sample of galaxies discovered in Webb’s archive exhibit a previously unseen combination of features that hint at a possible new population of galaxies.

At the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, researchers have shared preliminary but tantalizing results after a detailed analysis of James Webb Space Telescope archival data: a small sample of tiny galaxies that don’t fit in existing categories. Principal investigator Haojing Yan compares them to an infamous misfit in another branch of science, biology’s taxonomy-defying platypus. Has the research team discovered a missing link in the cosmos? Full details are on NASA.gov.

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Inbox Astronomy: NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog's Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

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NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog's Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

Release date: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 12:15:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Planet-building material found even in environments lacking the needed ingredients

The early universe may have been poor in heavy elements, but it was rich in creativity. In environments that lacked many of the ingredients astronomers associate with dust and planets today, new research is showing stars still found ways to build solid material.

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found unexpected types of dust in the nearby dwarf galaxy Sextans A, showing that stars were able to assemble solid grains from limited ingredients and offering a new window into how the first dusty galaxies took shape.

Full details are available on NASA.gov.

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Inbox Astronomy: NASA Hubble Helps Detect 'Wake' of Betelgeuse=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Elusive Companion Star

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NASA Hubble Helps Detect 'Wake' of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

Release date: Monday, January 5, 2026 4:15:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

After nearly a decade of tracking the giant star’s hidden companion, scientists have confirmed its existence and the influence it exerts.

Scientists have long puzzled over the mysterious red supergiant star Betelgeuse’s changes in brightness and surface features. The mystery intensified after the enormous star became unexpectedly faint in 2020. Now, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes, astrophysicists have for the first time found firm evidence that a companion is disrupting the atmosphere of Betelgeuse. Like a boat moving through water, the companion star creates a ripple effect in Betelgeuse’s atmosphere. Astronomers now see direct signs of this wake, confirming that Betelgeuse really does have a hidden companion shaping its appearance and behavior.

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Inbox Astronomy: NASA's Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object

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NASA's Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object

Release date: Monday, January 5, 2026 12:15:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Failed galaxy offers window into ‘dark universe’

Although scientists think most of the universe is composed of dark matter, this material does not emit light, making it difficult to detect. Now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is giving us a rare look into this dark universe by uncovering a dark-matter-dominated, failed galaxy that did not form stars. Called Cloud-9, this hydrogen cloud is a fossil remnant from the early days of the universe. For many years, scientists sought evidence of such a phantom object. But only when they turned Hubble’s sharp vision toward Cloud-9 could they definitively confirm that this cloud was indeed a starless relic of a failed galaxy.

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Inbox Astronomy: NASA's Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets

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NASA's Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets

Release date: Tuesday, December 23, 2025 9:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

Vast dust and gas disk offers insight into the birth of star systems.

Nearly 300 years after Immanuel Kant proposed that our solar system’s family of planets condensed from a flattened disk of gas and dust, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed that such planetary nurseries are common across our galaxy. Now, Hubble has identified the largest known protoplanetary disk—spanning an astonishing 400 billion miles, roughly 40 times the diameter of our solar system. This immense structure, located just 1,000 light-years from Earth, exhibits a surprisingly chaotic and turbulent environment for planet formation. Hubble’s high-resolution imagery shows wisps of material extending far above and below the disk. This discovery provides a unique opportunity to study the complex processes and conditions that govern the birth of planetary systems.

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Inbox Astronomy: NASA's Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time

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NASA's Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time

Release date: Thursday, December 18, 2025 2:00:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

The spectacular, resulting dust cloud mimics the appearance of a planet.

First you don’t see it, now you do! While Hubble astronomers were repeatedly viewing the nearby star Fomalhaut and its planetary system, they suddenly saw a point of light appear out of nowhere. This object did not show up in any of their previous observations. The scientists quickly realized that Hubble had captured the violent collision of two massive objects, an extraordinary event unlike anything in our own present-day solar system. The huge debris cloud created by this impact looked like a newly found exoplanet.

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Inbox Astronomy: NASA=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation

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NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation

Release date: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 10:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

Bizarre, lemon-shaped world has an atmosphere unlike any ever seen before.

In a finding scientists call “an absolute surprise,” a team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a rare type of exoplanet whose atmospheric composition challenges current theories of how the planet could have formed. This Jupiter-mass body appears to have an exotic helium-and-carbon-dominated atmosphere unlike any ever seen before.

This exoplanet is orbiting a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that is the mass of the Sun but the size of a city. The pulsar emits beams of electromagnetic radiation from its magnetic poles at regular intervals of just milliseconds. Together, the star and exoplanet may be considered a “black widow” system, though not a typical example. Black widow systems are a rare type of double system where a pulsar is paired with a small, low-mass stellar companion. Like the spider for which it is named, the pulsar slowly consumes its unfortunate partner. But in this unique case, the companion is an exoplanet, not a star. 

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Inbox Astronomy: NASA's Roman Telescope Will Observe Thousands of Newfound Cosmic Voids

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NASA's Roman Telescope Will Observe Thousands of Newfound Cosmic Voids

Release date: Monday, December 15, 2025 10:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

The resulting “big data” will help illuminate the nature of dark energy.

What do fizzing champagne glasses and our universe have in common? They’re both full of bubbles! The cosmic bubbles are vast structures hundreds of millions of light-years across. Their walls are outlined by collections of galaxies. The details of these bubbles – their size, shape, and distribution – can tell us more about the mysterious force known as dark energy that is causing the universe’s expansion to accelerate. The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will detect and measure tens of thousands of cosmic voids, some as small as just 20 million light-years across.

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