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Due to the disruption to the worldwide JWST Observer community caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, STScI, NASA, and the international partners at ESA and CSA decided to postpone the JWST Cycle 1 deadline.
Last year was another banner year for a new high number of refereed papers using HST data, and passed a bar at more than 1000 science papers published in one year. More than 60% of these papers came entirely or partly from archival data.
The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, targeted for launch in 2025–2026, will have a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's with comparable sensitivity and resolution.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, launched in April 2018, is NASA's current planet-hunting mission.
Listed in this article are three examples of the types of engagement OPO is leading for this 30th anniversary year: online engagement with HubbleSite, a series of events across the country, and a special 30th anniversary exhibit.
In 2018, STScI implemented a dual-anonymous proposal system for the HST proposal review process. Under this system, not only are proposers unaware of the identity of the members on the review panel, but the reviewers do not have explicit knowledge of the proposal teams.
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program fellowship provides for three years of salary and research support at a U.S. host institution of the fellow's choosing.
Star formation is a complex, multi-scale phenomenon which is central to our understanding of the origin of stars and planetary systems, as well as the structure and evolution of galaxies.
One of the main goals of extragalactic astronomy is constraining the star formation and assembly histories of galaxies.
Close your eyes, reach into our galaxy, and pick a random star. Chances are that star will be small, not much bigger than Jupiter, will shine with a dim orange-red color, and be about the temperature of a stove flame—pretty cold as far as stars go.
Galaxies are surrounded by a diffuse reservoir of gas known as their circumgalactic medium. For a galaxy of the mass of the Milky Way, much more gas will reside in its CGM than in its disk (Tumlinson, Peeples, & Werk 2017).
Planning multi-object spectroscopic-mode observations with JWST's NIRSpec requires configuring the Micro-Shutter Assembly to optimize observing efficiency. To do this, a prototype MSA Planning Tool was developed. The JWST launch delay presented an opportunity to rewrite and improve the tool. We discuss how teams joined forces to transform the prototype into a tool which is easier to maintain and meets the functionality of the prototype, while surpassing it in power and performance.
Cloud computing and the adoption of cloud services have grown dramatically over the last 10+ years. Cloud-service providers have rapidly innovated and expanded the capabilities available to all types of customers.
The Institute hosted the second Inclusive Astronomy meeting (IA2) on October 14 and 15, 2019. This was a follow-on meeting to the Inclusive Astronomy meeting held in Nashville four years earlier.
Every ten years, the field of astronomy takes a look at the state of the profession and its scientific accomplishments. And just as importantly, it decides how to address the scientific imperatives of the coming decade(s). Astronomy's 2020 decadal survey is upon us and a new generation of engineers, scientists, managers, and advocates will take the lead in establishing a new generation of Great Observatories.
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