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Results: 23
27
Jan
2021
Colloquia
2021 CoolSci at JHU/STScI
Featuring Aleksandra Hamanowicz (STScI) on A 3D View on the Cosmic Baryon Cycle and Rick White (STScI) on The Hubble Image Similarity Project.
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2
Feb
2021
Lectures
The Milky Way vs. Andromeda: When Galaxies Collide
Speaker: Laura Prichard (Space Telescope Science Institute)
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3
Feb
2021
Colloquia
2021 CoolSci at JHU/STScI
Featuring Andres del Pino Molina on The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy in 6D with Gaia and Machine Learning and Isabel Rebollido on Exocomets: Gas around Main-sequence Stars.
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9
Feb
2021
Colloquia
How to Lose a Legacy: Software Citation in Astronomy
Software has been a crucial contributor to scientific progress in astronomy for decades, but practices that enable machine-actionable citations have not been consistently applied to software itself. Instead,...
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10
Feb
2021
Colloquia
What's the Universe Made of? A Strong Gravitational Lensing Perspective
The standard LCDM model gives a successful description of many astrophysical observations. However, many fundamental questions remained unanswered. I will focus on two of them and show how strong gravitational...
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17
Feb
2021
Colloquia
Active Asteroids, Main-Belt Comets and HST
The asteroids and the comets were formerly viewed as distinct products of accretion from, respectively, inside and outside the snow-line. Now we see more clearly that they represent two ends of a continuum,...
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24
Feb
2021
Colloquia
The Search for Exomoons
With thousands of known exoplanets, many as small as the Earth, our detection capabilities are beginning to border on that necessary to detect the largest moons found in our solar system. Exomoons would...
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2
Mar
2021
Lectures
The Hubble Space Telescope: From Cosmological Conflict to Alien Atmospheres
Speaker: Tom Brown (Space Telescope Science Institute)
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24
Mar
2021
Colloquia
New Eyes on the X-ray Sky: First Results from eROSITA on SRG
eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) is the core instrument on the Russian-German Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission, successfully launched in July 2019, and undertaking...
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31
Mar
2021
Colloquia
From Ground to Space: Bringing to Light ASAS-SN Transients with Swift, TESS, NICER, HST, and Chandra
Speaker: Ben Shappee (University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy)
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6
Apr
2021
Lectures
Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond
Speaker: Christopher Wanjek
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7
Apr
2021
Colloquia
The Magnetic Interstellar Medium and the CMB Beyond
Speaker: Susan Clark (Princeton Institute of Advanced Study)
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14
Apr
2021
Colloquia
New Views on the Milky Way
Speaker: Amina Helmi (University of Groningen, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
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19-23
Apr
2021
Symposia
Towards the Comprehensive Characterization of Exoplanets: Science at the Interface of Multiple Measurement Techniques
The Space Telescope Science Institute is excited to host the 2021 STScI Spring Symposium, “Towards the Comprehensive Characterization of Exoplanets: Science at the Interface of Multiple Measurement...
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28
Apr
2021
Colloquia
Interstellar Interlopers
Speaker: Amaya Moro-Martin (Space Telescope Science Institute)
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