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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 19d

🔭 JWST Program 5552 - Mapping the distribution of ices in the host environments of protostellar hot corinos: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

Data: SMM-1a, released: 2025-09-18
NASA, ESA, CSA/ #JWST NIRCam 480, 360, 200

data: SMM-1a, released: 2025-09-18, processed: C.Blanchard

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 1d

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AAS Press Office @press.aas.org · 1d

National Solar Observatory: 30 Hours Worth of Cona Science-Data Released nso.edu/blog/30-hour...

30 Hours Worth of Cona Science-Data Released - NSO - National Solar Observatory

In May, NSF NSO & NJIT unveiled the clearest-ever images of plasma in the Sun’s corona. NOW, 80+ high-res observations are publicly available.

nso.edu

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 2d

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Trying something new: #JWST MIRI IFU (spectroscopy and image in one) of the galactic center. On the right are three emission lines of various elements.

The red circle indicates the position of the supermassive black hole (Sgr A*, position from SIMBAD) #SgrA

Left image shows brown clouds and stars with wide artificial filters. The right image shows artificial narrow filters with a colorful image of blue, yellow, green and red.

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 2d

🔭 JWST Program 9447 - GRB 250702B/D/E Burning Red: A GRB or TDE?: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

data: GRB250702B, released: 2025-10-05
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 444, 356, 200

data: GRB250702B, released: 2025-10-05, processed: C.Blanchard

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 2d

A final note on the mystery of the missing MIRI Sgr B2 data 🌟

data: SGRB2_MIRI, released: 2025-09-16, processed: C.Blanchard (right) & Alyssa Pagan (left, data unreleased)

Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 4d

🔭 JWST Program 6882 - Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS): www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

data: SPTJ2325-41, released: 2025-10-02
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 444, 356, 115

data: SPTJ2325-41, released: 2025-10-02, processed: C.Blanchard

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Astrobot JWST @astrobotjwst.bsky.social · 4d

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (MRGM2129). RGB Filters: 444, 277, 115
PI: Newman, Andrew B., program 04903. CRVAL: 322.345963, -7.687036
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 5d

Mystery put to rest by PI Adam Ginsburg - Due to technical difficulties in 2024, the second half of this MIRI observation was postponed for a year. @astroryan.bsky.social @melina-iras07572.bsky.social

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Melina Thévenot🏳️‍⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 5d

#Galaxy cluster ACO S 1121 (SPTJ2325-41) with #JWST NIRCam.

Filters: F277W, F356W, F444W

program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

Galaxy cluster with lots of blue galaxies, lensing mostly brown background galaxies into arcs around the cluster.

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Dr. Scott W. Fleming @scottwfleming.bsky.social · 5d

We added some nice features to our JWST Search interface. HST rolling out in next couple months, along with more goodies.

MAST - Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes @mast-news.bsky.social · 5d

Feature update: we've added album previews to our JWST Search interface! Also included with our update is a Light/Dark mode toggle. archive.stsci.edu/contents/new...

The JWST image preview feature; seven images are displayed in a grid.

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 5d

Full view

data: G054.093+01.748, released: 2025-10-01
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 430, 335, 182

data: G054.093+01.748, released: 2025-10-01, processed: C.Blanchard

Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 6d

Here's f182m with impressive activity in the central arena

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 6d

🔭 JWST Program 9438 - Certum: Multiband Webb Images in the Inner Galaxy for the Roman Galactic Plane Survey: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

data: G054.093+01.748, released: 2025-10-01
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 430, 335, 187

f430 (red): CO2, N2
f335 (green): PAH, CH4
f182 (blue): H2O, CH4

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 6d

gorgeous

Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent! Thanks for this confirmation, Ryan. I may ask PI Ginsburg if he can release the new data, considering it's already been published in RGB.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 7d

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could soon be seen by spacecraft at Mars, Jupiter and the Sun

☑️ www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/comet-3...
☑️ arxiv.org/abs/2508.15768

NASA has confirmed that Curiosity, Perseverance and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will attempt to observe 3I/ATLAS.

#3IATLAS 🧪🔭

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 7d

I took another look...the left half was only just observed on 2025-09-02. This must have been for the press release - to expand the MIRI image and fit the NIRCam width. Thus the year long moratorium. Mystery solved!

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 7d

I looked for it, too, but never thought to examine the unreleased data. Strange to hold back half the image.

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, Melina. The fit to NIRCam was so perfect in the scroll-over, I couldn't figure it out.

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 7d

I looked, too, but didn't think to examine unreleased data. I'm happy to know I'm not missing the full MIRI views.

Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 7d

I'm curious about this MIRI image released last week.

The left side of the press image is far wider than Level 3 data perimeters. Does ~40% more data exist in the lower levels for MIRI/IMAGE observations? I've superimposed my processing on right to illustrate the difference.

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Astrobot JWST @astrobotjwst.bsky.social · 7d

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (G054.093+01.748). RGB Filters: 480, 277, 70
PI: Schlafly, Eddie, program 09438. CRVAL: 291.246767, 19.598156
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 8d

10 Years of the Gabriela Mistral Dark Sky Sanctuary - The IAU designated the AURA Observatory site in Northern Chile as the first International Dark Sky Sanctuary in 2015

10 Years of the Gabriela Mistral Dark Sky Sanctuary

noirlab.edu

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 8d

I borrowed the candidate cue from ESA's presentation on lensing earlier today...and suspect your hat will survive the scrutiny.

Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 8d

Their density and clarity are spectacular

Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 8d

Another beautiful lensing candidate, recently observed on 2025-09-26 with JWST Program 4125 🔭

data: SGAS2111, released: 2025-09-27
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 444, 300, 150

data: SGAS2111, released: 2025-09-27, processed: C.Blanchard

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