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 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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Characterizing the Most Common Type of Planet in the Milky Way (that is not found around the Sun)
March 14, 2025 LecturesThe last decade of exoplanet exploration revealed a population of 1-3 Earth radius planets, which we now know are the most common outcome of planet formation (within 100 day orbital periods) in the Galaxy....
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Webb Office Hours
March 13, 2025 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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Transients From Space
March 11 through 13, 2025 WorkshopsTransient science is entering an exciting new era of discovery. The 2020 Decadal Survey named Time Domain Astronomy (TDA) as a top priority, and NASA’s Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS) program has...
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JWebbinar 39 - Pipeline 101: An Introduction to the JWST Science Calibration Pipeline
March 6, 2025 Software and DataThis JWebbinar will provide an introduction to the JWST Calibration Pipeline, giving an overview of the pipeline architecture and workflow along with its interaction with calibration reference files. We...
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Mapping out the Dark Matter in the Milky Way
March 5, 2025 ColloquiaIn this talk, I will explore the interfacing of simulations, observations, and machine learning techniques to construct a detailed map of Dark Matter in the Milky Way, focusing on the Galactic Center/Halo...
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Exploring the Solar System with the James Webb Space Telescope
February 27, 2025 LecturesThe James Webb Space Telescope is revolutionizing our knowledge of the cosmos, from the most distant galaxies to objects right here in our own local neighborhood. Infrared studies of the Solar...
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Webb Office Hours
February 27, 2025 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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Exoplanet Atmospheres in the Next Decade: Isotopes, Too Many Atmospheres, and Biosignatures
February 26, 2025 ColloquiaIn this presentation, I will describe my very personal view of some of the directions in which I think the study of exoplanet atmospheres will go in the next decade, before the launch of HWO. This view...
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JWebbinar 38 - Photometry with JWST: An Introduction to Photutils and Imviz
February 26, 2025 Software and DataThis JWebbinar will focus on performing photometry on JWST NIRCam images using the Photutils package. Photutils is a Python library that provides commonly-used tools and key functionality for detecting...
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Exoplanet Atmospheres Revealed: Insights from JWST Observations
February 19, 2025 ColloquiaThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revolutionizing the field of exoplanet atmospheric science with its unprecedented stability and wavelength coverage. From revealing previously unexplored chemistry...
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Toward Sustainable Research: Methods and Tools from Labos 1point5
February 18, 2025 ColloquiaThe Paris agreement, adopted in 2015 by over 190 countries, targeted to "significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions with the aim of limiting global warming to 2 °C this century, while...
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Webb Office Hours
February 13, 2025 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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Spring Colloquium: Presentations from STScI Postdocs
February 12, 2025 ColloquiaPresentations featuring Ilias Goovaerts, Macarena Garcia del Valle-Espinosa, Alexander Madurowicz, Katie Crotts, Rebecca Levy, and Alejandro Crespo Gomez.
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Galactic Plane Survey Community Workshop
February 11 through 13, 2025 WorkshopsThe Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next flagship observatory, is planned for launch in late 2026. An Early-Definition Astrophysics Survey Assessment Committee composed of community members...
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What Biogeochemical Information Is Preserved in the Lipids of Extreme Archaea?
February 7, 2025 LecturesAll life as we know it builds cell membranes that serve as an essential barrier from the external environment and facilitate the flow of matter and energy. The lipid membrane composition and its isotope...