Marking another major milestone, today the #Webb team completed the tensioning of all 5 layers of the sunshield, which puts the sunshield in its fully deployed state (animation 👇)! Details: blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/0…

Two views are better than one! This image of the Spirograph Nebula combines visible light data from Hubble and X-ray data from Chandra Observatory (seen in cyan). Discover more: go.nasa.gov/3pZWbhy

The #RASquilt image gallery - featuring all 100 of the patchwork squares we received - is now live on the Royal Astronomical Society website! 🎉✨🧵🌖 tinyurl.com/2p8pd468 #SpaceQuilt #RoyalAstronomicalSociety

This article academic.oup.com/astrogeo/artic… features our new open access journal, RAS Techniques and Instruments, now open for submissions, with an editorial team headed up by Jonathan Tennyson and Anna Scaife.

77 years ago today over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today we all remember. We must remember. | #Auschwitz77

Today is NASA's #DayofRemembrance, which honors those who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery. We join NASA is remembering the crews of Apollo 1, Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51L), and Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107).

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This iconic image of the first untethered spacewalk by NASA Astronauts Bruce McCandless II was taken #OTD in 1984.

This is your periodic reminder that from the carbon in your bones to the iron in your blood, you come from the stars. exoplanets.nasa.gov/what-is-an-exo… #PeriodicTableDay

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan On this day in 1990, Voyager 1 took the iconic Pale Blue Dot image.

Small adjustments, major progress! Having completed 2 more mirror alignment steps, #NASAWebb’s optical performance will be able to meet or exceed its science goals. Now that’s good optics! 😉 go.nasa.gov/3KMV1gW #UnfoldTheUniverse Curious about this image? Thread ⬇️

We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*. It’s the dawn of a new era of black hole physics. Credit: EHT Collaboration. #OurBlackHole #SgrABlackHole Link: eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronome…

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: nasa.gov/webbfirstimage…

🌟 A star is born! Behind the curtain of dust and gas in these “Cosmic Cliffs” are previously hidden baby stars, now uncovered by Webb. We know — this is a show-stopper. Just take a second to admire the Carina Nebula in all its glory: nasa.gov/webbfirstimage… #UnfoldTheUniverse

The #RASquilt stitching session is today at 4pm! We'll be just outside Mead Hall (near the registration desk). Come along and add some stitches to a piece of history in the making! #NAM2022 🧵✨🌖🚀🔭

Webb’s latest data gives us the first molecular and chemical profile of a distant world, gas giant WASP-39 b. This bodes well for its ability to probe the atmospheres of small, rocky planets like in the TRAPPIST-1 system: go.nasa.gov/3i3Tlql

A Titan-ic success! Here is Webb’s first look at Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Because Titan has a dense atmosphere, its surface is hidden in visible light. Enter Webb’s infrared eye, which captured clouds as well as bright & dark patches on its surface: go.nasa.gov/3FijpXN

Webb also hinted at a detection of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) on K2-18 b. On Earth, this molecule is only produced by microbial life. Because the detection needs to be confirmed, the team plans to follow up and look for additional evidence of biological activity on the planet.

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