Inbox Astronomy: First Completed Rocky Worlds Program Observations Open New Era in Exoplanet Studies

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First Completed Rocky Worlds Program Observations Open New Era in Exoplanet Studies

Release date: Thursday, July 9, 2026 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Learnings pave way for future, more challenging targets

Ever since the first planets beyond our solar system were discovered, astronomers have hoped to study rocky worlds similar in size to Earth. But detecting and characterizing these planets and their atmospheres has proven extraordinarily difficult. Rocky planets are relatively small, their signals are faint, and possible atmospheres can easily be obscured by fluctuations in the stars they orbit. The Rocky Worlds Director’s Discretionary Time (DDT) program was created to confront those challenges directly, using the combined powers of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescopes, to build a clearer picture of how rocky planets behave across the galaxy. The team’s first completed observations are laying the foundation for the program and for the broader astronomical community’s study of exoplanets.

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Inbox Astronomy: NASA Webb Uncovers Unusual Galaxy Shaped by Cosmic Collision

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NASA Webb Uncovers Unusual Galaxy Shaped by Cosmic Collision

Release date: Monday, July 6, 2026 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Hidden structures of a galaxy shaped by past collision come into view in infrared light

For more than 200 years, Centaurus A has fascinated astronomers, continually revealing new discoveries as ground- and space-based telescopes have grown more powerful and expanded humanity’s view across the electromagnetic spectrum. First cataloged in the early 1800s, the galaxy later became known as one of the brightest radio sources in the sky and was eventually recognized as the product of a dramatic galactic merger. Today, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is taking astronomers farther than ever in the study of Centaurus A, piercing through thick dust to reveal hidden stars, structures, and activity in extraordinary detail, helping scientists trace how this turbulent galaxy formed and continues to evolve.

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Inbox Astronomy: NASA=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Webb Reveals Stars Sparking to Life in Cosmic Celebration

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NASA’s Webb Reveals Stars Sparking to Life in Cosmic Celebration

Release date: Thursday, July 2, 2026 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Outflows reveal characteristics about the region’s protostars and how they influence their environment.

Protostars are often shrouded by the same clouds of dust and gas that they grow in. Astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to learn how the protostars that comprise FS Tau, a young star system about 450 light-years away, shape their surroundings. Webb’s high-resolution view also reveals the intricate structures within dense dust clouds, where light scatters and reflects, much like how a fireworks display illuminates the clouds created by these colorful explosions.

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NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star

Release date: Wednesday, July 1, 2026 11:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

WD 1856 b likely migrated to its current location billions of years after its star became a white dwarf.

Exoplanet WD 1856 b is a world that shouldn’t exist. It orbits a white dwarf star at a separation of less than 2 million miles – well within the “danger zone” where it should have been engulfed when its host star went through a red giant phase earlier in its life. To understand how it survived and learn more about it, astronomers studied this planet with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Their findings could have implications for the future of our own solar system in 5 billion years.

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Inbox Astronomy: NASA=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxy

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NASA’s Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxy

Release date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

By piercing through thick dust, new details of galaxy M82 shine through.

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided an in-depth look at edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82), a prototypical starburst galaxy that is forming stars 10 times faster than our own Milky Way galaxy. This dynamic environment has previously garnered observations by many observatories, including the Hubble and retired Spitzer space telescopes.

First imaged by Webb in 2024, a team of astronomers has recently revisited the scene with the telescope as part of an imaging survey, seeking to untangle the complex evolutionary history of this one-of-a-kind galaxy. Their observations reveal millions of stars and powerful outflows of gas and dust.

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Inbox Astronomy: Hubble Details Early Galaxy Transforming Neighborhood

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Hubble Details Early Galaxy Transforming Neighborhood

Release date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026 10:00:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Researchers show that a galaxy’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. “Hubble returned the only view that shows the galaxy’s ionizing photons — light capable of clearing the ‘fog’ in and around the galaxy,” 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.

Hubble’s observations are supported by both the James Webb Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s ground-based Very Large Telescope (VLT). Webb helped the team estimate the properties of the galaxy and analyze its older stellar population, which is not responsible for converting the gas. The VLT dated exactly when this galaxy existed.

This rare example helps astronomers pin down the sources of high-energy light that caused the gas in the entire universe to gradually transition — permanently clearing our view.

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