News in Astronomy & Geophysics – February 2023.

Graph New ESA Director of Science Graph ESA has appointed as Director of Science Carole Mundell, currently President of the UK Science Council, and Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy and founding Head of Astrophysics at the University of Bath, UK. WEAVE was produced by an international team led from the UK, coordinated by the Science and Technology Facilities Research Council. bit.ly/3HXtjQm JWST resets redshift record Graph: (NASA, ESA, CSA, and M. Zamani (ESA/Webb). Now that the report is published, RAS Council has decided that, while the acronym JWST is preferred to the full name, its use in RAS publications and communications is no longer compulsory. go.nasa.gov/3FKUZFD Ancient heart of Milky Way found Graph: (H.-W. Rix / MPIA) Ancient metal-poor stars in the heart of the Milky Way galaxy formed some 12.5 billion years ago, soon after the formation of its core. [Extracted from the article]