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Four-panel comic. A scientist counts nine galaxies; tiny dim stars wave “we live here”; the chalkboard goes from 1× mass to 4×; a galaxy squeezes into a too-small sweater.

Original comic, Science desk. News: ScienceDaily / Penn State / Nature Astronomy.

Science and Space

Early galaxies were hiding a lot of small stars

JWST plus VLT studied nine early galaxies. Hidden low-mass stars could make some of them 3–4× more massive than earlier estimates. One likely formed less than 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Nature Astronomy, Aug. 18, Cheng et al.

August 22, 2026 at 2:50 PM PDT

Four-panel comic. JWST sees a little red dot; a scientist says too bright for a star; a cutaway labeled black hole star; smiling red dots say we might be these too.

Original comic, Science desk. News: MIT Kavli / MIT News / Nature.

Science and Space

A “black hole star” may explain JWST’s little red dots

Too bright for a star.

August 22, 2026 at 2:47 PM PDT

Four-panel comic. Friday review at Kennedy; a GO stamp on a Roman folder; a Falcon Heavy on the pad at 7:26; two cartoon telescopes say portraits and close-ups over a wide sky map.

Original comic, Science desk. News: NASA Roman blog, Aug. 21, 2026.

Science and Space

Last go-ahead for Roman

NASA, the Roman team, and SpaceX finished a Flight Readiness Review on Friday at Kennedy. Target is no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, Falcon Heavy, Pad 39A. Nine months ahead is only in the Aug. 10 operations post, not Friday’s FRR note — left out of the strip.

August 22, 2026 at 2:40 PM PDT