ESA Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes

Have you checked out the 2025 ESA/Hubble and ESA/Webb calendar yet? It features 12 beautiful images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, from our giant neighbour Jupiter to the super star cluster Westerlund 1 ⭐ Read more and download your copy here: https://ow.ly/akmh50Uu6He 📷 ESA/Hubble, ESA/Webb

2024 has been a busy year for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope! 🔴 Hubble, which is coming up on its 35th year of operations, has discovered water vapour in a small exoplanet’s atmosphere, a black hole beam causing stars to erupt, and much more. 🔴 Webb has found candidates for the first young brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way, evidence for the existence of a rocky planet atmosphere outside our Solar System, and icy ingredients for potentially habitable worlds. 🔴 And the telescopes have been used together, including to produce some of the most striking cosmic images of the year! Check out this news item from the latest ESA/Hubble/JWST Science Newsletter: https://ow.ly/ZItS50Utcgy Sign up at https://ow.ly/gWF550Utcgx for more news for the scientific community 📷 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Spain), J. D’Silva (U. Western Australia), A. Koekemoer (STScI), J. Summers & R. Windhorst (ASU), and H. Yan (U. Missouri)

This is NGC 2566, one of 55 galaxies in the local Universe observed by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope as part of a programme to better understand star-forming galaxies 🌟 The image uses observations from MIRI, highlighting warm interstellar dust, and NIRCam, capturing detail of NGC 2566’s stars. These data will be combined with data from other telescopes to help understand the star-formation process. #WebbSeesFarther 📷 ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy 🎶 Stellardrone - Twilight

Did you know that we hold virtual ‘Webb Office Hours’ sessions every two weeks? If you have any questions about JWST data – from the data pipeline to proposal planning – these sessions are an opportunity to put them directly to members of the JWST team at STScl. Check out this news item from the latest ESA/Hubble/JWST Science Newsletter: https://ow.ly/chwz50Utc3i Sign up at https://ow.ly/o3Rm50Utc3j for more news for the scientific community 📷 STScI

🆕 Our ESA/Webb Picture of the Month features NGC 2566 🌌 a ‘nearby’ spiral galaxy located 76 million light-years away in the constellation Puppis. 🔴 The image uses observations from two of the instruments on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, NIRCam and MIRI, to show off the galaxy’s well-defined spiral arms, long central bar, and traceries of gas, dust, and stars. 🔴 The mid-infrared wavelengths captured by MIRI highlight its warm interstellar dust, while the near-infrared NIRCam data give a detailed view of the galaxy’s stars 🌟 🔴 NGC 2566 was observed as part of a programme dedicated to understanding the connections between stars, gas, and dust in nearby star-forming galaxies – it is one of 55 galaxies in the local Universe examined by Webb for the programme. 🔴 To gain a full understanding of the star-formation process, astronomers will combine Webb data with observations from other telescopes, including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Read more about it here: https://ow.ly/hPkK50Utbxv #WebbSeesFarther 📷 ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, A. Leroy

For almost 15 years, ESA/Hubble has been publishing a new image every Monday from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope 🌌 We’re inviting scientists who have had (or will have) Hubble observing time to contact us if they have aesthetically appealing and visually informative image data that could be featured in the Picture of the Week series. Check out this news item from the latest ESA/Hubble/JWST Science Newsletter: https://ow.ly/tJPA50Usr3n Sign up at https://ow.ly/bpkJ50Usr3m for more news for the scientific community 📷 ESA/Hubble

🆕 The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has found that planet-forming discs lived longer in the early Universe! 🔴 In 2003, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope spotted a massive planet around a star that was almost as old as the Universe. Such stars possess only small amounts of heavy elements like carbon that are the building blocks of planets. 🔴 The discovery implied that some planet forming happened in the early Universe, and that those planets had time to grow large inside their primordial discs. But how? 🤔 🔴 Webb imaged stars in a cluster that, like the early Universe, lacks large amounts of heavy elements. It found that not only do some stars there have planet-forming discs, but that those discs are longer-lived than those seen in our galaxy! Read more about it here: https://ow.ly/J8IH50UrNit #WebbSeesFarther 📷 NASA & ESA

Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566. 🔴 A prominent bar of stars stretches across the centre of the galaxy, spiral arms emerging from each end. As NGC 2566 appears tilted from our perspective, its disc takes on the appearance of a cosmic eye ⭐👁️ 🔴 As NGC 2566 gazes at us, astronomers gaze right back, using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to survey its star clusters and star-forming regions. These data are useful for studying young stars and piecing together the timeline of the galaxy’s star formation. 🔴 Several other astronomical observatories have also examined NGC 2566 – together, they provide an overview of the lives and deaths of stars across the Universe. Read more: https://ow.ly/RJKC50UrxNM 📷 ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker

The latest ESA/Hubble/JWST Science Newsletter is now available! In it, you can read about: 🔴 Hubble’s Cycle 32 programme observations that started in mid-November. 🔴 Webb's Cycle 4 Call for Proposals 🔴 2024 science highlights from both missions and much more Browse the latest edition here: https://ow.ly/73Ol50UqFic Sign up at https://ow.ly/LPpc50UqFib for more news for the scientific community

The 2025 calendar is here! 🥳 To celebrate another year of images and discoveries from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, we have released a 2025 calendar 📆 showcasing planets, star clusters, galaxies, and more from both missions. Read more and download your copy here: https://ow.ly/5yLg50UqEmg 📷 ESA/Hubble, ESA/Webb