Space Telescope Science Institute

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Mission Operations Center for NASA's Webb Space Telescope (#NASAWebb). Science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Baltimore, MD stsci.edu/communications… Joined June 2008

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Learn about what makes #NASARoman so exciting—as well as its latest developments—from Ori Fox, the deputy project scientist for Roman’s Science Operations Center at STScI.

WHEN: Thursday, February 4, 2027, at the Maryland Museum of Natural Sciences
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www.marylandnature.org NASA’s Next Big Thing: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – Maryland Museum of Natural Sciences Join us Thu, February 4, 2027, 7pm - 8pm. NASA launched its flagship mission: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on August 30, 2026. Roman is a wide-field near-infrared survey telescope designed...

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In 2023, #NASAWebb peered at a portion of the Horsehead Nebula. With Webb’s near-infrared view, scientists gathered details about the “mane’s” gas and dust at the molecular level. Hydrogen, methane, and water ice compose the mane: go.nasa.gov/47juzZG 🔭

$A clumpy dome of blue and gray clouds topped with streaky, translucent red wisps. A large, prominent star with Webb’s signature eight-point diffraction spike pattern is at the top. These features lie against the black background of space, which shows many distant galaxies.$

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TOMORROW: The Cigar Galaxy has been notoriously difficult to study. It contains large amounts of dust, making its disk nearly impenetrable at optical wavelengths. Now #NASAWebb has pierced through its dust to reveal its structure in incredible detail. youtube.com/live/YeA17Ex3l…

www.youtube.com Secrets of the Cigar: JWST Unveils the Prototype Starburst Galaxy The Cigar Galaxy, a.k.a Messier 82 (M82), is the prototype for a un...

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To celebrate STScI’s 45 years as stewards of space astronomy, we viewed the institute with a 110 film camera, a format that was available in 1981, our first year in operation. Among these photos are objects that were just ideas then, such as a model of #NASAWebb. Credit: STScI.

The view of the Webb Mission Operations Center from a hallway shows four large computer screens with the time at 19:04.

A faded square image of a man working on an image of an object in space on a computer screen.

A tightly cropped image of a model of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror near a window.

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Spiral arms often wind down to the very center of a galaxy, but NGC 4698’s spiral arms appear to “shy away” from its glowing core. The arms instead hover in a ring-like structure around the perimeter of the galaxy in this Hubble image. Credit: ESA, NASA.