Good news: The asteroid everyone was worried about won't hit Earth. Better news: Folks working in Baltimore will help us learn more about planetary defense.
The folks at the Space Telescope Science Institute arguably know the James Webb Space Telescope best — so we asked them for their favorite images or discoveries from the last year.
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, a once-in-80,000-years sight, will pass within 44 million miles of Earth, making it watchable with the naked eye in Maryland and much of the Northern Hemisphere.
The only people on Earth who regularly communicate with James Webb Space Telescope work in a nondescript concrete office building much closer to home — on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore.
The images released today show a distorted spiral galaxy, nicknamed the "Penguin” because it looks like it has a penguin’s beak, eye, and chest or tail, and an elliptical galaxy, nicknamed the "Egg.”
Two Maryland teams — from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — and a team from the Netherlands Institute for Space Research and Airbus Netherlands B.V., each worked on one of the three instruments on the satellite.
A total solar eclipse will pass over the United States in early April. Maryland is close to, but not quite in, the path of totality. If you want to see it, you should start planning now.
Laura Ingraham, of Fox News, was doubled over in laughter with a guest of hers in a clip captured on the website formerly known as Twitter. Why? Because President Joe Biden referred to the Webb Space Telescope, but the TV hosts thought he gaffed.