Kelly Lepo | How do astronomers choose what to observe with # JWST ? Most of the time is allotted once per year, through the General Observers program. Anyone in the world can apply for telescope time. The latest round (cycle 3) was due on Oct 25, and STScI just published a summary. There were 1,931 proposals submitted by 6,008 investigators from across the world. While you may think of JWST as a machine for making pretty images, 72% of the requested time was for spectroscopy. More: https://www. stsci.edu/contents/news/jwst/2 023/jwst-observers-set-world-record-for-astronomical-proposal-submissions
