Events Overview

STScI hosts colloquia, conferences, lectures, meetings, symposia, and workshops that cover a broad array of topics of interest to the astronomical community as well as the general public. From this page, you can find current, upcoming, and past events of interest.

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  1. Enceladus's Plume-Derived 'Snow' Fall

    October 4, 2024 Lectures

    Tectonic pit chains are geologic landforms observed on many solar system bodies, and in the outer solar system they are most clearly observed on Enceladus. Pit chains form above a dilational fault or extensional...

  2. The SAGA Survey: A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way-like Galaxies

    October 9, 2024 Colloquia

    I will present the main findings of the third Data Release (DR3) of the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey, a spectroscopic survey characterizing satellite galaxies around Milky Way (MW)-mass...

  3. Webb Office Hours

    October 10, 2024 Community Events

    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 JWST Pipeline, calibration,...

  4. YAE In-Person Family STEM Forum

    October 17, 2024 Community Events

    Please join us in-person to learn more about astronomy during our Youth for Astronomy and Engineering Program event "STEM Forum" followed by an opportunity to engage in hands-on activities and...

  5. Accurate Flux Calibration in the Era of Space Astronomy and All-Sky Surveys

    October 22 through 25, 2024 Workshops

    Advances in space telescope technology and all-sky surveys are driving the need for more precise and accurate flux calibration across the observable spectrum.  The Space Telescope Science Institute...

  6. Webb Office Hours

    October 24, 2024 Community Events

    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 JWST Pipeline, calibration,...

  7. Pushing into the Cosmic Dark Ages with JWST

    October 30, 2024 Colloquia

    Pushing the Hubble Space Telescope to its limits at the end of the last decade has allowed astronomers to view the tip of the cosmic iceberg at a time only 500 Myr after the Big Bang. While a few candidate...

  8. Strange New Worlds

    November 1, 2024 Lectures

    Is there a universal divide between planets with and without atmospheres? Is it based on their incident fluxes and escape velocities? By studying exoplanets that span the cosmic shoreline, we have begun...

  9. Exploring Cosmic Acceleration: Insights from DESI 2024

    November 6, 2024 Colloquia

    The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration is conducting a five-year redshift survey of 40 million extra-galactic sources over 14,000 square degrees of the northern sky up to the redshift...

  10. There is Light in the Darkness

    November 12, 2024 Lectures

    Speaker: Eleni Vardoulaki (National Observatory of Athens)

  11. Machine Learning the Evolution of Gas from Clouds to Stars

    November 13, 2024 Colloquia

    Abstract is forthcoming Speaker: Stella Offner (The University of Texas at Austin)

  12. Webb Office Hours

    November 14, 2024 Community Events

    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 JWST Pipeline, calibration,...

  13. The Open Access Era of Exoplanet Characterization at the Onset of Next-Generation Telescopes

    November 20, 2024 Colloquia

    Abstract is forthcoming Speaker: Natasha Batalha (NASA Ames Research Center)

  14. Hunting the Stellar Undead

    December 3, 2024 Lectures

    Speaker: Gregory Sivakoff (University of Alberta)

  15. Knowing Stars, Knowing Planets: Unlocking JWST Exploration of Exoplanet Atmospheres through New Stellar Insights

    December 4, 2024 Colloquia

    Abstract is forthcoming. Speaker:  Benjamin Rackham (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)