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"Stellar Relics & Transients" featuring James DerKacy (STScI) on Type Ia Supernova Physics in the JWST Era and Patrick Ogle (STScI) on Introducing...

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The JWST User Community is invited to call into Webb Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a team of STScI JWST experts via WebEx. We welcome questions about the...

Tiny red circles are scattered around an image of space with the text Deep Space Dialogues, JWST’s Tiny Red Sources and the Big Questions They Raise, Speaker Kevin Hainline
Speaker: Kevin Hainline (Associate Research Professor, Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona) In its first three years, JWST has transformed our view of galaxy evolution....


"Nearby Galaxies (CGM)" featuring Sapna Mishra (STScI) on Studying Diffuse Gas in the Magellanic System: Insights from UV and Optical Spectroscopy and Vida Saeedzadeh...


"Black Holes & Gravity" featuring Chris Nagele (JHU) on Predicting X-ray Spectra of Accreting Black Holes from Simulation and Francesco Iacovelli (JHU)...

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The JWST User Community is invited to call into Webb Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a team of STScI JWST experts via WebEx. We welcome questions about the...

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