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Institute Announcements

STScI Newsletter: STScI at Summer AAS and Roman’s Surveys

Join us for a wide variety of science and technical presentations in Alaska, and learn about the definition of Roman’s Core Community Surveys.
What Are Hubble and Webb Looking at Now?

Check out the revamped Space Telescope Live to find out what Hubble and Webb are currently observing.

Press Releases

NASA's Webb Scratches Beyond Surface of Cat's Paw for 3rd Anniversary

July 10, 2025

$A section of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a local star-forming region composed of gas, dust, and young stars. Toward the center is a large arch of brown-orange filaments of dust. The area to the left and right of this section appear darker and seemingly vacant of stars. Many small, yellow-white stars are spread across the scene, some with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of Webb. A few larger blue-white stars with diffraction spikes are scattered throughout, with the largest located at left.$
NASA Webb 'Pierces' Bullet Cluster, Refines Its Mass

June 30, 2025
NASA's Webb Digs into Structural Origins of Disk Galaxies

June 26, 2025

Events

Cosmic Cartography with Roman: Advances in Galaxy Structures, Distributions, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

14-18 Jul 2025

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned to launch in late 2026, will be capable of surveying the sky 1000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope with similar sensitivity...
2025 HotSci at JHU/STScI: High-Redshift Galaxies

23 Jul 2025

"High-Redshift Galaxies" featuring Rebecca Larson (STScI) on Advancements in Exploring the Early Universe: Unlocking the Mysteries of Galaxies During the Reionization...
Webb Office Hours

24 Jul 2025

The JWST User Community is invited to call into Webb Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a team of STScI JWST experts via WebEx. We welcome questions about the...
Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Visionary Science and Transformational Technology

28-31 Jul 2025

We are pleased to announce the inaugural open community event for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory, to be held at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC, from July...
2025 HotSci at JHU/STScI: Exoplanets

30 Jul 2025

"Exoplanets" featuring Stephen Schmidt (JHU) on K2-18 b is (Probably) Not a Hycean Biosphere and Emily Rickman (STScI) on Characterizing Substellar Companions.
JWST Summer School: High Redshift Transients with JWST

4-15 Aug 2025

The inaugural STScI James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Summer School will focus on High-Redshift Transients with JWST. Early career scientists, including undergraduate students, new...