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Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula Lurks Within Sight of NASA’s Hubble, Webb

Release date: Thursday, October 29, 2026 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

The star-forming region bewitches in visible and infrared light.

Just in time for Halloween, NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes recently stared at an eerie star-forming scene within the Carina Nebula, a massive gas and dust cloud located approximately 7,500 light-years away from Earth. The two telescopes offer complementary views of the shadowy form, nicknamed the Cat’s Head Nebula, which reflects the “magical” process of star formation. Hubble’s visible-light view shows the cat as a dark, elongated dust pillar and hints of young forming stars, while Webb’s infrared-light imagery unveils many stars and other hidden details.

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Inbox Astronomy: Webb Measures Distance to Farthest Fast Radio Burst, Suggesting Origin

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Webb Measures Distance to Farthest Fast Radio Burst, Suggesting Origin

Release date: Thursday, October 8, 2026 2:00:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Record breaker dates back to just 3 billion years after the big bang.

What mysterious phenomenon is capable of creating a millisecond-long blast of radio waves so powerful that we can detect it from billions of light-years away? The origin of such events, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), remains uncertain.

A recently discovered FRB contains a clue. The most distant one found to date, its host galaxy proved surprisingly small and young. This suggests that there is little delay between when galaxies form stars and when they become capable of generating FRBs. This indicates FRBs likely are caused by young neutron stars known as magnetars. Only the James Webb Space Telescope was able to detect and characterize the host galaxy, determining both its distance and its size.

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edgeblog.alerts.2011.001@gmail.com Hello EDGE, We’re updating our settings to give you even more control over saved history and personalized recommendations across Google Search services and Google Play. Search services include Search, Maps, Shopping, Hotels, Flights, Translate, and News. You’ll see this change in your Google Account in the next few days. What’s changing Previously, saving history and personalization were managed by Web & App Activity. Going forward, you can better tailor your Search services experience using your new Search Services History and Personalized Recommendations settings. These settings let you revisit your past searches and decide if you want your experience to be personalized. As people increasingly search in new ways, like searching a photo with Lens, Search Services History now includes media from your interactions, which you can stop saving at any time. For Google Play, you'll have new Play History and Personalization in Play settings, even if you’ve never used this service. You can turn these settings on or off at any time. How this affects your account New history and personalization settings: Your new settings for Search services and Google Play will reflect your most recent choices for Web & App Activity and Search Personalization settings. If Web & App Activity is currently off, these new settings will stay off. After the transition, the Web & App Activity setting will be separate from Search services’ and Play’s personalization and history settings. Changes to one setting won’t affect the others. Auto-delete: Your prior choice from Web & App Activity for how long your history is saved will also apply to Search Services History and Play History. As always, you can change how long history is saved, choose an auto-delete period, and review or delete history manually at any time. Your media is saved when Search Services History is on: Saved media includes your images, files, audio and video from your interactions with Search services to help improve your experience. For example, this lets you revisit your past visual searches with Lens or continue a Search Live conversation about a song you heard. To support these types of interactive product experiences, Google will now save your media to your Search Services History, applying robust privacy and security protections. Like your Search Services History, your saved media is also used to develop and improve Google services and technologies, including AI models and safety measures. With this transition, if your Web & App Activity setting is currently turned on, this new Save Media subsetting will also be turned on along with your Search Services History. You can turn off your Save Media subsetting at any time, and you can also delete individual pieces of media from your history. You can manage these preferences by visiting My Activity and your Personalization settings pages. Learn more about your Search services settings and Google Play settings.    © 2026 Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043    You received this email to let you know about important changes to your Google Account and services.

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NASA's Webb Captures Commotion From Nebula’s Stellar Jets

Release date: Tuesday, October 6, 2026 9:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Webb’s infrared gaze reveals stars at various stages in their life cycles in high resolution

A technicolor dreamscape is revealed in this new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. It portrays a stellar nursery known as NGC 7129, a nebula that holds numerous protostars and stars within its fields of gas and dust. Webb captured infrared light, which pierces through the dense matter that scatters or absorbs other types of light. This region, rife with stellar objects in different stages of their lives, offers an opportunity to explore how stars shape their surrounding environment.

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Inbox Astronomy: Suspected Second-generation Planet Solves NASA Hubble Cold Case

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Suspected Second-generation Planet Solves NASA Hubble Cold Case

Release date: Monday, October 5, 2026 11:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

New analysis of archival Hubble data points to the possibility of "dead" white dwarf stars hosting second-generation planetary systems

For more than a quarter century, unidentified chemical signatures from a white dwarf star have laid dormant in the archive of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, until diligent sleuthing by a young astronomer revealed something extraordinary: high amounts of the element niobium, and other unusual chemical abundances, indicating a potential second-generation planet orbiting the white dwarf. 

While a handful of planets have been identified orbiting white dwarfs, this is the first candidate with the hallmarks of a planet that formed from material related to a star’s death, rather than its birth. The discovery proposes a fascinating new area of future research and highlights the intriguing concept that stars could have an extended second act hosting new planets long after the fuel of their primary “lifetime” runs out. 

 

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NASA’s Webb Provides Crash Course on Planet-Shattering Collisions

Release date: Thursday, October 1, 2026 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

The telescope is going beyond grazing the surface of these dusty, chaotic systems.

Approximately 20 years ago, the Spitzer Space Telescope uncovered an enigmatic subclass of circumstellar disks — rings of dust and rock orbiting mature stars. Now a team of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope to further study these confounding environments known as extreme debris disks. Within these disks, Moon-sized and even Mars-sized objects are colliding, creating massive amounts of warm dust. With the largest survey of these disks to date, the team has enough data to begin investigating their composition, origins, and connection to planet formation and evolution — including in our own solar system.

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Inbox Astronomy: STScI Scientists Part of Collaboration Receiving 2027 Berkeley Prize

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STScI Scientists Part of Collaboration Receiving 2027 Berkeley Prize

Release date: Thursday, September 17, 2026 12:00:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

UNCOVER project revealed JWST’s “little red dots” as mysterious, dusty black holes in the early universe.

Scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute are members of the collaboration that has been awarded the 2027 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy as part of their work with the UNCOVER project. The Berkeley prize is awarded annually for highly meritorious work in advancing the science of astronomy during the previous year.

UNCOVER is a Cycle 1 Treasury program on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. This program conducted ultradeep imaging and spectroscopy of and around Abell 2744, a massive group of galaxies also known as “Pandora's Cluster.”

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NASA’s Webb Reveals Dynamic Panorama of Star Formation

Release date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

One of the largest Webb images released to date


A stunning view of nearby star-forming region IC 348 reveals an active scene of newborn stars sculpting the environment surrounding them, as well as the smallest brown dwarfs ever discovered. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s deep observations of the region found brown dwarfs with masses as low as twice that of Jupiter, offering new clues, and new challenges, for understanding how stars and planetary-mass objects form. The observations offer a glimpse into one stage of the stellar lifecycle that Webb is exploring across the universe, from the birth of stars and planets to their eventual death.

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NASA’s Hubble, Webb Find Far-out Solar System Objects ‘Remember’ Past

Release date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

These telescopes offer best view yet into early stage of planet-building

More than 100 million times dimmer than what can be seen by the naked eye, far-out Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) are small, faint, icy bodies orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune’s orbit. Now, in the deepest TNO studies to date, researchers analyzed the color, composition, and size distribution of 27 newly discovered TNOs—some of them the smallest and faintest ever directly seen. 

Using NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the teams measured the objects’ colors, which are like a fingerprint of the surface composition, as well as their sizes, and determined their orbits. What they found was the best view yet into an early stage of planet-building in our solar system. Working together to detect and characterize these TNOs, Hubble and Webb provided more insight into these tiny objects than either could on its own. 

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NASA's Hubble Tracks New Decagon Encircling Saturn’s South Pole

Release date: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 2:00:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

10-sided wave appears to strengthen in year-over-year Hubble observations

Stunning portraits of the gas giants in our solar system over the last several decades can make these planets seem like familiar, unchanging worlds. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and Saturn’s famous northern hexagon are recognizable features that have persisted for years, reinforcing that message.

However, astronomers know that these planets are actually constantly in motion, changing much like our own Earth. The latest major discovery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope offers a striking example: a newly formed, 10-sided atmospheric wave, called a decagon, encircling Saturn’s south pole.

Researchers are just beginning to piece together the history of this new feature and investigate what its evolution can reveal about the dynamic atmospheres of gas giant planets.

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