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

2026-09-17T16:09:21.338+00:00

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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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Inbox Astronomy: NASA=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Webb Reveals Dynamic Panorama of Star Formation

2026-09-15T14:07:59.216+00:00

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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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Inbox Astronomy: NASA=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_Hubble=2C_Webb_Find_Far-out_Solar_System_Objects_?= ‘Remember’ Past

2026-09-08T14:09:44.027+00:00

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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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