Judy Schmidt has always been humble about her hobby. After all, she has no formal education in astronomy. But when she started tinkering with the latest data from Jupiter, she says it was an ...

Citizen scientist Judy Schmidt explains the basics of how she transformed raw telescope data into a spectacular image of the Phantom Galaxy. When you purchase through links on our site ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

But in the case of this pair of Jovian images, the data was processed by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt of Modesto, California. (For the wide-field image, she collaborated with Ricardo Hueso ...

The incredible views were lined up by Judy Schmidt, a citizen scientist with no formal training in astronomy who has been processing astronomy images as a hobby for more than a decade. Because the ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Ricardo Hueso and Judy Schmidt Supported by By Dennis Overbye I have a confession to make: I underestimated the James Webb Space Telescope.

Judy Schmidt is moving to Maui, a place she dearly loves. And yet she’s crying. Tears for the folks she’s leaving behind. Tears for Montana. In some strange way, tears for something that ...