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What Are Hubble and Webb Looking at Now?

Check out the revamped Space Telescope Live to find out what Hubble and Webb are currently observing.

The Open Access Era of Exoplanet Characterization at the Onset of Next-Generation Telescopes

20 Nov 2024

One of NASA's primary goals is to observationally characterize exoplanet atmospheres, understand the chemical and physical processes of exoplanets and improve the understanding...
Hunting the Stellar Undead

3 Dec 2024

Speaker: Gregory Sivakoff (University of Alberta)
Knowing Stars, Knowing Planets: Unlocking JWST Exploration of Exoplanet Atmospheres through New Stellar Insights

4 Dec 2024

The first JWST transmission spectra have revealed the properties of exoplanet atmospheres in exquisite detail but also a characterization bottleneck due to spectral contamination from...
The Fate of Volatiles Through Earth's Accretion and the Moon-forming Giant Impact

6 Dec 2024

Delivery and loss of volatile elements and compounds (such as water, carbon, nitrogen and the noble gases) during Earth’s accretion set the stage for the rest of our planet's...
New Views of Cool Atmosphere Physics and Chemistry from JWST

11 Dec 2024

Giant planets and brown dwarfs are astrophysical objects with different formation locations – planets in disks and brown dwarfs (we think) in giant molecular clouds. These different...
Webb Office Hours

12 Dec 2024

The JWST User Community is invited to call into Webb Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a team of STScI JWST experts via WebEx. We welcome questions about the...