{"id":55412,"date":"2024-03-07T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/51df4a3b-f483-4e5d-8a36-1b6100f4059b"},"modified":"2024-03-07T08:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T08:32:29","slug":"what-are-the-webb-and-hubble-telescopes-looking-at-right-now-find-out-with-these-new-nasa-tools","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/rss_feed\/what-are-the-webb-and-hubble-telescopes-looking-at-right-now-find-out-with-these-new-nasa-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Webb and Hubble telescopes looking at right now? Find out with these new NASA tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Find out what the premier space telescopes are looking at right now with NASA’s Space Telescope Live. <\/p>

By Iain Todd\n <\/p>

Published: Thursday, 07 March 2024 at 08:00 AM<\/p>

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The images released by the James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> and the Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> have profoundly changed our perception of the Universe, but do you ever wonder when those images were captured, or what Webb and Hubble are looking at right now?<\/p>

Could Hubble be capturing a wide-field view of a dusty star-forming nebula<\/a> in deep space, or perhaps capturing another wonderful image of Jupiter?<\/p>

A view of Jupiter and its moon Europa captured on 25 August 2020 by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit:NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

What about Webb? Maybe it’s gathering data on the remnants of an exploded star or observing galaxies so far away, they existed when the Universe was in its infancy.<\/p>

NASA has released a new web application called Space Telescope Live<\/a>, which reveals what either Webb or Hubble is observing right now, including the target’s name, its category, the goals of the observing programme and when observations began.<\/p>

It also reveals when the next observing session is due to begin.<\/p>

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A view of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Danny Milisavljevic (Purdue University), Tea Temim (Princeton University), Ilse De Looze (UGent). Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)<\/figcaption><\/figure>

The application reveals exactly where the Webb and Hubble targets are in the sky – should you wish to find them yourself! – and what instruments are being used to capture the images, spectra and other data.<\/p>

It shows how long the observations are scheduled to run, who is leading the study and what the astronomers are trying to discover.<\/p>

The app was developed for NASA by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and was originally conceived in 2016.<\/p>

True to NASA’s open data-sharing policy, it is also possible to explore the archives of observations by famous observatories such as Webb, Hubble, TESS, Kepler and, in the future, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope.<\/p>

You can access this via the\u00a0Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes<\/a>.<\/p>

Find out what Webb and Hubble are observing now via What is Webb Observing?<\/a> and <\/em>What is Hubble Observing<\/em><\/a>?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n

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