What Are Hubble and Webb Observing Right Now? NASA Tool Has the Answer

March 06, 2024 10:00AM (EST)Release ID: 2024-107
Two side-by-side images of the same region of space. Superimposed on each is a simple, white line drawing of a telescope. Left: Drawing of the Hubble Space Telescope on a Hubble image showing numerous stars and a hazy blue to brown cloud of gas and dust. Right: Drawing of the Webb Space Telescope on a Webb image showing numerous stars and a pinkish yellow to brown cloud of gas and dust. The Webb image shows a more filamentous and billowy structure. There is no clear boundary between the two images.

Summary

NASA's Space Telescope Live provides an interactive way to explore the most accurate, up-to-date, publicly available information on current, past, and upcoming observations by NASA’s Hubble and Webb space telescopes.

Identify, locate, and zoom into a map showing the latest target. Slew over to the next target and back to the previous one. Monitor the schedule. Take a look at the science instruments. Check on the status of yesterday’s observations. Dig into the research proposal. Click through the entire catalog of past Hubble and Webb observations.

Designed and developed by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, NASA’s Space Telescope Live provides insider access to current and upcoming observation details: not just what each telescope is looking at, but where the targets are in the sky, how the data are being gathered, and what questions researchers hope to answer.

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