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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The Solar System Cookbook: What Is Webb Revealing about How Solar Systems Like Ours Come To Be?
March 18, 2026 LecturesSpeaker: Dr. Klaus Pontoppidan (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized our ability to study the formation and growth of new planetary systems, some with similarities ...
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JWebbinar 47 - NIRCam and MIRI Calibration Update
March 24, 2026 Software and DataCalibration of the JWST science instruments is an ongoing process, continually evolving as better data processing algorithms have been designed and in response to changes onboard the Observatory. After ...
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Searching for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy
March 25, 2026 ColloquiaSupermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) should be common in galactic nuclei as a result of frequent galaxy mergers. Yet they remain undetectable, especially during the final stage of their evolution. ...
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Webb Office Hours
March 26, 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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Stirring the Pot: How a Galaxy Quenches Star Formation Without Removing its Fuel
April 1, 2026 ColloquiaModern day galaxies populate a bimodal distribution, in both morphology and color space. Their morphological and color properties are also inter-related, with lenticular and elliptical galaxies exhibiting ...
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Results from the Dark Energy Survey and Looking Ahead
April 8, 2026 ColloquiaThere is a vast amount of information stored in the large-scale structure of the universe. Over the past 10 years, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has been using ever larger maps of the sky to learn about ...
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Webb Office Hours
April 9, 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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Science with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes VIII: Enriching the Universe: From Primordial Nucleosynthesis to Exoplanet Atmospheres
April 13 through 16, 2026 ConferencesWe are delighted to announce the latest in the series of ESA-sponsored conferences, in collaboration with STScI, which highlight the scientific impact of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. With ...
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Spring Colloquium: Presentations from Postdocs
April 15, 2026 ColloquiaPresentations featuring Sarah Moran, Santosh Harish, and Ciaran Rogers.
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Unraveling the Dynamical History of Andromeda
April 22, 2026 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Ekta Patel (Villanova University)
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Webb Office Hours
April 23, 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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Protoplanetary Disk Dynamics for Binaries and Planets
April 29, 2026 ColloquiaAbstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Kaitlin Kratter (The University of Arizona)
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Divergent Small Bodies: Interstellar Interlopers and Dark Comets
May 6, 2026 ColloquiaIn recent years, two entirely new classes of planetesimals have been discovered in the solar system: interstellar interlopers and dark comets. These still-enigmatic objects are challenging our understanding ...
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The Metal-Poor Frontier: Understanding Low-Metallicity Stars and Galaxies Across Cosmic Time
May 11 through 15, 2026 SymposiaLongstanding uncertainties regarding the nature of the low-metallicity (≲20% Solar) Universe pose significant barriers to our interpretation of the chemical and physical properties of the near-pristine ...
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Webb Office Hours
May 14, 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, ...