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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The Cosmic Microwave Background as a Probe of the Very Early Universe
October 1, 2008 ColloquiaTo be announced. Speaker: Eiichiro Komatsu (University of Texas)
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Why Is Star Formation So Slow?
September 24, 2008 ColloquiaTo be announced. Speaker: Mark Krumholz (UC Santa Cruz)
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New Physics and Cosmology with LISA and Other Interferometers
September 17, 2008 ColloquiaTo be announced. Speaker: Craig Hogan (Fermilab)
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Servicing Mission 4 and the Final Frontiers of Hubble
September 2, 2008 LecturesSpeaker: Chris Blades (STScI) The final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope is scheduled for October 8, 2008. According to one official, "(it) will be, without doubt, the most complicated...
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Measuring the Cosmic Distance Scale
August 5, 2008 LecturesSpeaker: Asaf Peer (STScI) Perhaps the simplest, and arguably the most important, questions in astronomy are those of the distance to the Sun, the Moon, the stars, and galaxies beyond. From Eratosthenes...
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Hubble's Universe in the WorldWide Telescope
July 1, 2008 LecturesSpeaker: Frank Summers (STScI) Hubble's Universe is an astronomy podcast that not only explains the science behind the magnificent Hubble images, but also places the cutting-edge results within...
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Life Cycles of Star Clusters
June 4, 2008 ColloquiaThis talk will present a comprehensive picture of the life cycles of star clusters, from their birth in molecular clouds to their dissolution in the field (unclustered) stellar population. Our...
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The Hubble Heritage Project: Making Color Images for the Hubble Space Telescope
June 3, 2008 LecturesSpeaker: Lisa Frattare (STScI) The Hubble Heritage Project is responsible for some of the most astounding images of the universe. The simple idea of mining the Hubble archive for datasets of beautiful...
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Early Photons from the Early Universe & Other Backgrounds
May 28, 2008 ColloquiaThe sky, even the extraterrestrial sky, is not dark at any wavelength. This was a gradual discovery, beginning with an early 20th century measurement of about one 5th magnitude star per square...
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Local Universe Supernovae and their Host Galaxies
May 21, 2008 ColloquiaOne of the goals of supernovae (SNe) research is to gain an understanding of their progenitor stars, which can be achieved through indirect methods, such as supernovae rate determinations and...
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Post-starburst Galaxies & Fossil Galactic Winds: New Clues to QSO Feedback
May 14, 2008 ColloquiaTo be announced. Speaker: Christy Tremonti, Steward Observatory (University of Arizona)
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The Age of the Andromeda Galaxy
May 6, 2008 LecturesSpeaker: Tom Brown (STScI) The Local Group of Galaxies contains only two large galaxies; the Andromeda Galaxy and our Milky Way Galaxy. These two spiral galaxies provide the best observations for...
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A Decade of Dark Energy
May 5 through 8, 2008 SymposiaThe universe is more complex than we imagined it to be a decade ago. Observations of distant supernovae, the cosmic microwave background, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, gamma-ray bursts, and gravitational...
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The SN–GRB Connection from the SN Perspective and their Environs
April 30, 2008 ColloquiaSupernovae of Type Ib/c are core-collapse supernovae whose massive progenitors have been stripped of progressively larger amounts of their hydrogen and helium envelopes. The link between long-duration...
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Many Worlds in One
April 23, 2008 ColloquiaRecent developments in cosmology suggest that the big bang was not a unique event in the cosmic history. Other bangs constantly erupt in remote parts of the universe, producing new worlds with great...