EVENTS

The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) will be installed on HST later this year. In anticipation of that, STScI is in the early stages of defining the goals and observing strategy for a major high-Galactic-latitude...

The goal of this workshop was to begin envisioning the astrophysics that could be accomplished from space in the 2020 era and beyond. Astrophysics in the 2020's will build upon the results obtained...

Federal budget cuts, deficit spending, raising the debt ceiling, mandatory spending, fiscal responsibility, balancing the budget – these phrases are guiding much of the debate on Capitol Hill and...

The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) sponsored a Workshop to engage the UV/optical/Near-IR (UVOIR) astronomy community to discuss its long-term goals for space-based astronomy...

To be announced. Speaker: Brian Siana (UC Riverside)

To be announced. Speaker: Michael Regan (STScI)

This talk will summarize my recent observations of disk and spheroidal galaxies, which challenge and enrich our pictures of how they form. I will show how the internal kinematics of star-forming galaxies,...

The James Webb Space Telescope may grant us the opportunity to study the atmospheres of potentially habitable worlds orbiting nearby stars. There is only one problem: We don't yet know at which stars...

A workshop to bring together scientists searching for extrasolar planets with those planning a new generation of space instrumentation. The program will include: New programs for the detection and study...

To be announced. Speaker: Richard Gott (Princeton)

A 3-day workshop at STScI on "pearls," "feathers," and "spurs" in spiral galaxies. The workshop brought observers together with theorists and modelers, and focused...

Speaker: Joseph DePasquale, Space Telescope Science Institute

The nature of dark matter is one of the major "known unknowns" of physics of the universe. From astronomical observations, we know that dark matter exists, makes up 23% of the mass budget of...

Day 1: Star-formation Properties/Histories What do we learn from detailed studies of stellar populations such as are possible for nearby dwarfs? What are their star formation histories? How does this relate...

Gravitational lensing is a highly useful way to observe the total matter content of the universe, including dark matter. Given the strong observational support for the claim that most of the matter in...