Events Overview
STScI hosts colloquia, 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 Apply 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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Mapping the Milky Way and Beyond: The After Sloan-V Project
September 16, 2026 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Keith Hawkins (The University of Texas at Austin)
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How to Image Alien Worlds
September 22, 2026 LecturesSpeaker: Dr. Emily Rickman, European Space Agency / Space Telescope Science Institute Planets beyond our Solar System, known as exoplanets, are extremely difficult to observe. It’s equivalent to ...
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It is Time for a Compact Object Paradigm Shift
September 23, 2026 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Ryan Foley (University of California Santa Cruz)
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Webb Office Hours
September 24, 2026 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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HST Office Hours
October 1, 2026 Community EventsThe astronomical community is invited to join HST Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a Hubble Space Telescope expert via Webex. We welcome questions about the Wide Field Camera 3 ...
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2026 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Symposium
October 5 through 9, 2026 SymposiaThe NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) fosters excellence and leadership in astrophysics by supporting exceptionally promising and innovative early-career astrophysicists. The NHFP Fellows Symposium ...
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Extragalactic Archaeology: What Mergers Do (and Don't Do) to Galaxies and Their Satellites
October 7, 2026 ColloquiaGalaxy interactions and mergers are central to hierarchical structure formation, yet their long-term impacts on galactic structures and satellite populations remain debated. In this talk, I will show how ...
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The Rise of the First Galaxies
October 8, 2026 LecturesThe 2026 ESA Distinguished Lecture will feature Dr Hakim Atek, who is an Associate Astronomer at the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris (IAP) in France. He received his Masters in astronomy and astrophysics ...
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Webb Office Hours
October 8, 2026 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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JHU/STScI Fall Colloquium: Presentations from Postdocs
October 14, 2026 ColloquiaSpeakers and abstracts are forthcoming.
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JHU/STScI Fall Colloquium
October 21, 2026 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Anthony Piro (Carnegie Science)
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Webb Office Hours
October 22, 2026 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 First Observations of True Jupiter Analogs: Into a New Era of Exoplanet Characterization with JWST
October 28, 2026 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Caroline Morley (The University of Texas at Austin)
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Opening a New Window on the Universe with XRISM
November 4, 2026 ColloquiaAt 23:42 UTC on September 6th, 2023, the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) lifted off from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, ushering in a new era of high-energy astrophysics. XRISM, an international ...
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HST Office Hours
November 5, 2026 Community EventsThe astronomical community is invited to join HST Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a Hubble Space Telescope expert via Webex. We welcome questions about the Wide Field Camera 3 ...