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Institute Announcements

Roman's Cycle 1 Call for Proposals Is Now Open

Propose by March 17, 2026 for support of scientific investigations of Wide Field Instrument data, new General Astrophysics Survey observations, and more.
STScI Newsletter: Roman Research Nexus and Hubble STUC Meeting Articles

Jump onto the Roman Research Nexus now to prepare for Roman’s real data, and learn about takeaways from the December Hubble STUC meeting.

NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang

January 28, 2026

$A wide field of view showing deep space, dotted with many small galaxies and a few foreground stars that display six diffraction spikes.$
AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive

January 27, 2026
NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals

January 21, 2026

$A portion of the Serpens Nebula. A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. The upper left corner of the image is filled with mostly orange dust, and within that orange dust, there are several small red plumes of gas that extend from the top left to the bottom right at the same angle. At center-left is a larger star that is circled. This star has Webb’s signature diffraction spikes, but along the right also has an arc of white, with the circular edge starting at the center of the star. Mostly blue gas fills the bottom-center. The gas to the right is a darker orange. Small points of light are sprinkled across the field. The brightest sources have extensive eight-pointed diffraction spikes.$

Let Us Calculate: Humanity and the Project of AI

10 Feb 2026

Alongside astonishing advances in AI capabilities, a growing trend is emerging under the rubric of ethics and the “alignment problem,” as a response to the limitations,...
Little Red Dots as "Black Hole Stars"

11 Feb 2026

Perhaps the most stunning surprise revealed by JWST yet is a class of compact, red, high-redshift sources (z~2-9) found in virtually every image the telescope takes. The sheer numbers...
Webb Office Hours

12 Feb 2026

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...