Chase Million on Mythryl: “Note that these were 3,203 proposals for observation time, not…”

Note that these were 3,203 proposals for observation time, not money. Something like ~20-50 person-years were expended applying for a ~5% chance of getting just data. [An opportunity to apply for financial support may follow, but the number and size of grants is entirely up in the air, per below.]

stsci.eduSTScI Budget Proposer GuideLearn about the budget submission process for Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) programs.

JWST Observer@jwstobserver.bsky.social

STScI received 3,203 GO proposals for 138,460 hours (with an additional 8,971 Pure and Coordinated parallel hours requested). This corresponds to an oversubscription of 18:1 with respect to the 7,700 hours offered in #JWST Cycle 6: ow.ly/uqAt50ZWSwG

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