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.
Use the filter bar below to search by specific event criteria including Type, Mission, Keyword, and/or Date. Click the Submit button to generate the query. Information and resources for each event can be found by clicking on the "Read More" link. All times listed are Eastern Time, unless otherwise noted.
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Enceladus's Plume-Derived 'Snow' Fall
October 4, 2024 LecturesTectonic 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...
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The SAGA Survey: A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way-like Galaxies
October 9, 2024 ColloquiaI 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...
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Webb Office Hours
October 10, 2024 Community EventsThe 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,...
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YAE In-Person Family STEM Forum
October 17, 2024 Community EventsPlease 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...
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Accurate Flux Calibration in the Era of Space Astronomy and All-Sky Surveys
October 22 through 25, 2024 WorkshopsAdvances 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...
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Webb Office Hours
October 24, 2024 Community EventsThe 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,...
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Pushing into the Cosmic Dark Ages with JWST
October 30, 2024 ColloquiaPushing 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...
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Strange New Worlds
November 1, 2024 LecturesIs 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...
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Exploring Cosmic Acceleration: Insights from DESI 2024
November 6, 2024 ColloquiaThe 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...
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There is Light in the Darkness
November 12, 2024 LecturesSpeaker: Eleni Vardoulaki (National Observatory of Athens)
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Machine Learning the Evolution of Gas from Clouds to Stars
November 13, 2024 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming Speaker: Stella Offner (The University of Texas at Austin)
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Webb Office Hours
November 14, 2024 Community EventsThe 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,...
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The Open Access Era of Exoplanet Characterization at the Onset of Next-Generation Telescopes
November 20, 2024 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming Speaker: Natasha Batalha (NASA Ames Research Center)
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Hunting the Stellar Undead
December 3, 2024 LecturesSpeaker: Gregory Sivakoff (University of Alberta)
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Knowing Stars, Knowing Planets: Unlocking JWST Exploration of Exoplanet Atmospheres through New Stellar Insights
December 4, 2024 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Benjamin Rackham (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)