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Cheryl Blanchard
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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · Sep 18
🔭 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
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
yuvharpaz.bsky.social
An interesting detail from the quoted image: DES J003208.22+180625.2, I propose the nickname "Corcovado". An interesting lensing effect.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
chatGPT: A JWST/NIRCam image of a galaxy cluster showing strong gravitational lensing. Several bright, smooth, white elliptical galaxies sit in the foreground, surrounded by a dark background sprinkled with many faint distant galaxies. Around the central region, multiple elongated arcs of light appear—some thin and sharply curved, others shorter and softer. Several of the arcs glow with a warm orange hue, including a long, gently bending arc stretching across the upper right and a pair of shorter orange arcs near the center. These arcs are background galaxies whose light has been distorted by the massive cluster’s gravity. Me: a white sheroidal galaxy has apparent two arms, created by a mirror image of a distorted spiral-arms galaxy
December 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
yuvharpaz.bsky.social
Saturn by #JWST 🔭, NIRCam. The equator band was saturated for most filters (level 3 images), but what a sight.
chatGPT: A near-infrared view of Saturn set against a black background. The planet appears as a softly glowing sphere in warm reddish and orange tones, with faint horizontal banding across its atmosphere. Saturn’s rings are seen nearly edge-on, forming a thin, bright, elongated line that slices diagonally across the planet. The rings shine in pale white and bluish hues, contrasting with the darker, muted colors of the planet behind them. The overall impression is a delicate, simplified infrared portrait highlighting Saturn’s atmosphere and razor-thin ring plane.
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
cheribliss.bsky.social
🔭 JWST Program 6882 - Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS}

science target: RXCJ0032+1808, released: 2025-12-01
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 444, 227, 150
science target: RXCJ0032+1808, released: 2025-12-01, processed: C.Blanchard
December 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
cheribliss.bsky.social
🔭 JWST Program 6882 - Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS): www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

science target: RXCJ0032+1808, released: 2025-12-01
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 444, 227, 150
science target: RXCJ0032+1808, released: 2025-12-01, processed: C.Blanchard
December 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Day 5 morning #ArtAdventCalendar

Lynds 483
20×30″ 51×76 cm
Oil on Canvas
2025

Based on an image of two actively forming stars from the JWST NIRCam. Lynds 483 is 650 light years away in the constellation Serpens.
Painting of a blue purple and orange nebula that looks a bit like a butterfly with hundreds of stars around it
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
melina-iras07572.bsky.social
New #JWST images of #Saturn. Here a quick processing on calibration level 2 data (NIRCam F164N+F212N), with the position of moon #Titan on the lower left corrected. program 9219 🔭
Observation date: 2024-12-06
The ringed planet Saturn and one moon on the lower left. Several smaller moons near the rings on the right side.
December 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
landru79.bsky.social
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST

Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources
High-redshift Galaxies and the Distant Universe

TARG: #MACSJ0159-0849
2025-12-01
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji
NIRCAM 444 410 300 277 210 200 150 115 090

yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
December 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
cheribliss.bsky.social
#JWST 🔭 #artadventcalendar #sciart

'Arp 107' -Corel Painter, Artist's Oils
Arp 107 - a painting of two merging galaxies, elliptical and spiral. Original reference data was observed with the James Webb Space Telescope using the MIRI instrument. Set against the blackness of deep space, both galaxies are painted in a range of rich, blues hues. The larger spiral galaxy has a central black hole, painted in bright white and pink refraction spikes. The background is peppered with a variety of distant stars and galaxies, all in the royal colors of the MIRI instrument. This scene is located 465 million lightyears distant in the constellation Leo Minor. -Cheryl Blanchard
December 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
ryanjfrench.bsky.social
Gracefully carving through the solar corona, a mini eruption of filament plasma erupted from the Sun earlier today! Beautiful.
December 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
jackiebranc.site
🔴 #Mars #Perseverance Sol 1695: Right #Mastcam-Z Camera / enhanced

Nov. 26, 2025 (Sol 1695), 12:20:38

source image: Mars_Perseverance_ZR0_1695_0817412658_818EBY_N0813608ZCAM09783_0340LMJ

Image Credit: #NASA / #JPL-Caltech / #ASU / Jackie Branc

#RedPlanet
Mars Perseverance Sol 1695: Right Mastcam-Z Camera / enhanced. NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast. Nov. 26, 2025 (Sol 1695), 12:20:38 source image: Mars_Perseverance_ZR0_1695_0817412658_818EBY_N0813608ZCAM09783_0340LMJ Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Jackie Branc
December 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
vrubinobs.bsky.social
Ok everyone let's get in formation 💃

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s image of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae captures several dazzling open star clusters. 🌌💫 These clusters are young, loosely bound families of stars that will eventually drift apart over millions of years. 🔭🧪

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A bright central cluster of stars of various sizes, surrounded by glowing pink and orange clouds of nebular gas. The clouds are uneven, with both smooth regions and thin, threadlike structures. Darker patches appear where dust partially blocks the light, creating contrast against the brightly lit areas.
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
astrobotjwst.bsky.social
New #JWST 🔭 data release for target names: Chi-Aqr-Offset-Pre-Imaging, R-Aqr-Offset-Pre-Imaging.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
Take a look at news_by_date.html
jw04901-o011_t007_miri_f560w-brightsky_i2d.jpg R-Aqr-Offset-Pre-Imaging Zooming in on the Dust in the R Aqr Symbiotic System: Effects of the Powerful Outburst and Jet resulting from the Recent WD Periastron Passage
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
astrobotjwst.bsky.social
🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (RXCJ0032+1808). RGB Filters: 444, 300, 90
PI: Fujimoto, Seiji, program 06882. CRVAL: 8.038763, 18.151879
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
tmprs.jpg
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
cheribliss.bsky.social
#JWST 🔭 data release schedule for December
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
cheribliss.bsky.social
NORILab FITS Liberator 5 has an intuitive interface with many new tools for astronomical image processing. 🔭

User's Guide: noirlab.edu/public/media...

OS minimum requirements: Windows 10 (64-bit) or later, macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later, Linux (modern 64-bit distribution)

Demo ⬇️
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
pomarede.bsky.social
Release of NOIRLab FITS Liberator 5

☑️ Making Rubin-scale color images accessible to all

noirlab.edu/public/annou... 🔭
Release of NOIRLab FITS Liberator 5 - Making Rubin-scale color images accessible to all
Release of NOIRLab FITS Liberator 5
noirlab.edu
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
andrealuck.bsky.social
Nebula N159 - Turbulent Stellar Nursery - NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope

Full size: flic.kr/p/2rHucEs 🔭🧪
Full size 10K image & more info: flic.kr/p/2rHmEwm

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger/Andrea Luck CC BY

2024-11-20 NIRCam
5114 PI Elena Sabbi
Raw filters aligned by @landru79.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
yuvharpaz.bsky.social
Just to feel the resolution of the data, here is a DS9 visualisation of three NIRCam filters
A reddish cloud with complex texture, dotted with bright stars
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
longpainter.bsky.social
Night sky in phthalo over Glacier N.P. 10”x10” oil
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
cheribliss.bsky.social
🔭 JWST Program 2875 - Scrutinizing the Dirtiest Cepheids, a Test of the Hubble Tension: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

target: NGC-2525, released: 2025-11-17
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 277, 150
target: NGC-2525, released: 2025-11-17, processed: C.Blanchard
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
cheribliss.bsky.social
The Secrets of the Wave Pilots - "A decade ago, researchers on a similar voyage documented Mr. Kelen’s understanding of the ocean as he sailed from one atoll, Majuro, to another, Aur, on a traditional Marshallese sailing canoe."
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
cheribliss.bsky.social
#blueskyartshow #small #eastcoastkin
Siphanta acuta: the Green Planthopper, native to Australia and photographed in southeastern New England
November 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
landru79.bsky.social
Cualquier pedacito es una delicia

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST

Tracing the evolution of circumstellar and protoplanetary disks at low metallicity

TARG: #LHA-120-N-159
2024-11-20
PI: Sabbi, Elena
NIRCAM f460 f444-470 f360 f335 f300 f210 f187 f140 f115

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
cheribliss.bsky.social
🔭 JWST Program 5114 - Tracing the evolution of circumstellar and protoplanetary disks at low metallicity: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

target: LHA-120-N-159-NIRCam, released: 2025-11-21
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 335, 460, 115
target: LHA-120-N-159-NIRCam, released: 2025-11-21, processed: C.Blanchard
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Reposted by Cheryl Blanchard
melina-iras07572.bsky.social
(1/n) Image thread about the LHA 120-N 159 (or just N159) region with #JWST NIRCam. Here the filters F300M (blue), F335M (red) and F460M (green) 🔭
I made F335M red because this is PAH, otherwise the entire image would be green.
Full resolution: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LH...
An orange-red nebula with cyan filling the voids.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM