Lee Feinberg: The 2026 SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics For outstanding leadership through the design, integration, and delivery of optical systems that brought the objectives of #Webb and #Hubble into clear focus. @leefeinberg.bsky.social spie.org/news/lee-fei...

Came across this at the SPIE booth at the AAS. So glad we did this.

What a year for the James Webb Space Telescope! From identifying frozen water in a young star system to wowing us with great images of the distant universe, Webb has exceeded our expectations in 2025. 🔭

Had an excellent data review with our brilliant team at Space Telescope Science Institute today going over the telescope performance. JWST will be in space 4 years this week and its performance is still excellent and it will be for a very long time!!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-... Wonderful article. Honored to be part of this.

www.youtube.com/live/Wuyxgs6... Finally posting my talk on the HWO Approach and Architecture Status from the incredibly productive conference last week. It's the first talk here and shares our next 2 architectures being studied.

what a week for our future✨ #HWO25 🧵coming soon🔭🧪☄️ @mmacgreg.bsky.social @hbhammel.bsky.social @bmacastro.bsky.social @dawngelino.bsky.social @aussiastronomer.bsky.social @stsci.edu @aura-astronomy.bsky.social @justtheletteru.bsky.social @vividreams.bsky.social @leefeinberg.bsky.social +500 others

Wow. These are aurorae, dancing high in the atmosphere. Of Jupiter. From #JWST

ESA is organising at Town Hall on the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) at 2pm CEST on Fri 16 May. For registration and further details see: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/hwo_town...

𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'. Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n). 🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Paper out of China this month.

Worth the free registration😀. www.electrooptics.com/article/how-...

Each of #NASAWebb’s four instruments are able to answer specific science questions. Three instruments have cameras, but all four can perform spectroscopy, which is used to study the details of what wavelengths of light objects emit or absorb: webbtelescope.pub/3uJUKoW 🔭 🧪

Yesterday was paper day! With deep JWST data from the ALT survey we provide new independent evidence that the new population of faint AGNs in the early Universe seems to have so-called overly massive black holes compared to their stellar mass arxiv.org/abs/2412.02846

Another big #nasa Roman milestone! The sunshade was just recently installed! Heading towards launch in less than two years www.nasa.gov/universe/nas...

“Think of #habitableworldsobservatory as a #superhubble... capable of.. transformative astrophysics” said Arney, “as well as.. the 1st observatory ever designed to search for signs of life on planets outside of our solar system.”#exoplanets www.thespacereview.com/article/4930/1 🔭@jfoust.bsky.social

OK, since the cat's out of the bag (and we're official) I'm happy to report we were granted time to use JWST to look at #2024YR4 and measure its size in about a month. :) 🔭🛰️

Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING. I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

The Habitable Worlds Observatory project office will share its plans this morning at the 10AM HWO Special Session followed by HWO Project Scientist Dr Giada Arney's "Search for Life" Plenary talk!

www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/jou... Special edition JATIS for HWO technology call is out...

Join the community...

Support NASA JPL HabWorlds teammates in the Pasadena fires www.gofundme.com/f/support-na... #NASA #NASAJpl #Astronomy #astrobiology

Join us at these HWO events at the AAS...plus the PAGs and other related posters and talks. Lots to share!

Incredible! 44 individual *stars* observed in a galaxy 6.5 BILLION light years away! Light we're seeing from these stars was emitted before the Earth formed 🤯 This is only possible because of the fun physics of gravitational lensing! Read more: abcnews.go.com/Technology/h... #JWST #NASA #space

Yes we will being playing Blue Sky. Looking forward to sitting in on a few tunes with local legends the Cravin Dogs.

French Guiana. 22x11meters. 6250KG. Ok, I know things.

www.universetoday.com/170034/space... Love seeing this!

A great way to end the week

I wonder how much clickbait stories about a handful of people doing these terrible things actually amplify and publicize this in ways that are counter productive.

This is exactly what we need to be doing right now😀

Can't wait...

spacenews.com/northrop-gru... Super excited about this and what this means for servicing telescopes someday.

Since Blue Sky is also an Allman Brothers song, I'm going to plug my band The Allman Others playing at Earp's Ordinary December 14th as my first post....https://www.earpsordinary.com/events/