Each month, Dr. Larry Lebofsky publishes a couple newsletters with the latest news in astronomy and space science.
Newsletter-December-2025-Part-1
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From the Editor:
See the Voyager 1 and OSIRIS-APEX missions, and comet 3I/Atlas on NASA’s Interactive Eyes on the Solar System Web App.
Cover Image Background: Webb’s mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time. Previous observations by other telescopes showed only one. Webb’s data also confirmed that there are three stars gravitationally bound to one another.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White (Macquarie University); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
About the Author:
Dr. Larry Lebofsky is a Senior Education and Communication Specialist at the Planetary Science Institute and an Education Specialist at the University of Arizona. He has a B.S. in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph. D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining PSI in 2008, he was a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
Larry was the Secretary/Treasurer and Education Officer for the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Association and President of the Arizona Science Teachers Association. He is now Secretary for the International Meteorite Collectors Association and on the governing board for the Southern Arizona Research, Science, and Engineering Foundation. The Small Bodies Nomenclature Committee of the IAU named an asteroid, 3439 Lebofsky, in recognition of his contributions to planetary sciences. In 2000 he received the Carl Sagan Medal of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Association for excellence in public communication in planetary sciences.
