Bethany Downer

Today's we've published our last Picture of the Month from James Webb in 2024! NGC 2566 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Puppis, featuring well-defined spiral arms, long central bar and delicate tracery of gas, dust and stars. Details: esawebb.org/images/potm2412a…

⭐ It's here!⭐ The 2025 Hubble/Webb calendar is now available FREE to the public for digital or print download options. We invite everyone to enjoy the twelve months of images of the cosmos from these beloved missions that were released throughout 2024: esahubble.org/announcements/…

We've just released an amazing new time-lapse from Hubble spanning from 2014 to 2023 of one of the most rambunctious stars in our galaxy. R Aquarii is a symbiotic binary star that lies only roughly 1,000 light-years away. Full release: esahubble.org/news/heic2413/ #Hubble #scicomm

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Happy Monday from #Hubble! This new image features the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059, which lies about 57 million light-years from Earth. Details: esahubble.org/images/potw242…

#Webb has discovered what appears to be a new record-holder for the most distant known galaxy — shattering its own previous record. This galaxy existed only 290 million years after the big bang! Details: esawebb.org/images/jades4/

Happy Monday! Today's new image from #Hubble shows the broad and sweeping spiral galaxy NGC 4731, which lies among the galaxies of the Virgo cluster and is located 43 million light-years away. Details: esahubble.org/images/potw242…

Happy Monday! Today we've release a nearly edge-on view of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4753 from #Hubble. This is the object's sharpest view to date! The galaxy is believed to be the result of a galactic merger roughly 1.3 billion years ago. Details: esahubble.org/images/potw242…

Can relate. In Newfoundland it’s snowing 🙄

Happy Monday! Today's new image from the #Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy UGC 9684, which lies around 240 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Boötes. Details: esahubble.org/images/potw241… #scicomm

Delighted to be in Porto, Portugal for #Hubble and #Webb telescopes science conference this week!

Ta-da!🌟 Each year Hubble dedicates a small portion of its observing time to taking a special anniversary image, showcasing particularly beautiful objects. Hubble’s 34th launch anniversary is celebrated with a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula. esahubble.org/news/heic2408/

An incredibly inspiring astrophysicist who deserves this recognition 👏🏻 – at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Happy Monday! Here's a new #Hubble image of NGC 3783, a bright barred spiral galaxy about 130 million light-years from Earth. The very bright object in the lower right part of this image is the star HD 101274, which lies only about 1530 light-years from Earth (about 85 thousand times closer than NGC 3783!) Details: esahubble.org/images/potw241…

Who else is still on an adrenaline high from yesterday's #TotalSolarEclipse2024 ? 🌙 cbc.ca/player/play/1.7166891

Thank you @BBCWorld for featuring my experience of the eclipse from Newfoundland and Labrador!! 🌙 bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-… – at Fogo, Newfoundland and Labrador

Despite a grey cloudy day, the skies parted just in time for everyone to enjoy a few brief moments of the last place where the #TotalEclipse2024 can be seen in North America 🌙 – at Fogo, Newfoundland and Labrador

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NEW: #Webb found the first clear evidence that the galaxy GN-z11 (shown here just 430 million years after the Big Bang) is hosting a central, supermassive black hole, making it the most distant active supermassive black hole spotted to date! Learn more: esawebb.org/news/weic2406/