STScI Live Science Events

12/12/2024

2024 Fall Colloquium Series:

Jonathan Fortney (University of California, Santa Cruz)- New Views of Cool Atmosphere Physics and Chemistry from JWST

December 11th, 2024

09/18/2024

01/17/2023

Nearby Galaxies under a New Light with Roman: Splinter Session at the 241st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society organized by STScI (Science Operations Center for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope). See agenda:
https://outerspace.stsci.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=168692694

The Roman Space Telescope will provide HST-like spatial resolution in the optical and near-infrared, but with a field of view 200 times larger than HST/WFC3/IR. Even for single pointings, this provides data sets comparable to large survey projects with previous generation space-based observatories. Roman's large field-of-view will also quickly map the most nearby galaxies with resolved stars. Its superb astrometric capabilities will allow us to measure galaxy growth across space and time with unprecedented detail. Complementary, studies that map stellar populations with Roman in the most nearby galaxies will teach us valuable lessons to connect to observations and simulations of the early Universe. ALMA and JWST studies of galaxies probe the build-up of stellar mass at high redshift and, in complement, Roman will provide statistically significant samples to study how efficient metal production is during the most vigorous stages of galactic growth. The goal of this session is to bring together expertise from the local and more distant Universe to articulate how studies of the expanding horizon of the nearby Universe, with Roman, can be connected to our understanding of the most distant objects.

12/07/2022

Note that some STScI science events are streamed and archived on YouTube also:

This is the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Research Staff Channel where we post videos of colloquia, seminars, journal clubs and various events le...

05/11/2022

At 11am Eastern, we will have a special Exoplanets,
Star and Planet Formation (ESPF) Seminars at STscI (Hybrid!)
https://sites.google.com/site/starandplanetformationseries/
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Everything you need to know about LIFE, the space mission

from a delegation of from ETH Zurich

Daniel Angerhausen
Eleonora Alei
Felix Dannert
Timothy Gebhard

This occasion will be a great chance for you to learn more about the European-led LIFE mission concept which aims to characterize terrestrial exoplanets in the mid-infrared and to talk about synergies with the IR/O/UV flagship mission put forward by the Decadal Survey to study these planets in reflected starlight. If you are interested in getting involved with the LIFE project.

Please check out their new website:
https://life-space-mission.com

LIFE - A space mission designed to characterize terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres and search for life outside the solar system

04/21/2022

Galaxy Clusters 2022: Challenging Our Cosmological Perspectives (Spring Symposium, April 25-29)

Galaxy clusters are the densest galaxy environments in the Universe and provide us with important insights into many fundamental astrophysical processes. They are essential laboratories for studying gravity, dark matter, cosmology, interactions between galaxies, the intracluster gas and stars, and the cycling of baryons into and out of galaxies. Recent multi-wavelength observations have enabled significant progress in our understanding of cluster formation and evolution, delivering more complete samples of clusters and finding ever more distant clusters and protoclusters. However, this is only the starting point. There will be an explosion of multi-wavelength data from the existing and upcoming cluster programs from facilities such as eROSITA, ALMA, ACT, SPT, the Dark Energy Survey, Subaru's HSC-SSP, Euclid, Rubin Observatory's LSST, SPHEREx, the Roman Space Telescope, and the Simons Observatory. Wide-area multi-object spectroscopic surveys are providing extensive redshift coverage of clusters out to z = 0.5 and beyond, enabling new lines of research. JWST will further revolutionize our ability to obtain deep spectroscopy and near-infrared data to probe the properties of distant cluster galaxies in unprecedented detail. All of these observations will need to be interpreted with a new, richer generation of more precise simulations of cluster assembly in ever larger volumes. This symposium will provide a forum for researchers to discuss recent results and future perspectives in the study of galaxy clusters. Topics to be discussed include cluster cosmology, cluster surveys and detection, cluster mass estimation, gravitational lensing and analyses of cluster substructures, environment-driven galaxy evolution, baryon cycling, connections to large-scale structure, results from new large-scale simulations, and the challenges of analyzing cluster data across many wavelengths and over a large span of cosmic time.

Galaxy clusters are the densest galaxy environments in the Universe and provide us with important insights into many fundamental astrophysical processes. They are essential laboratories for studying gravity, dark matter, cosmology, interactions between galaxies, the intracluster gas and stars, and t...

02/23/2022

STScI Introduces the Discovery Seminar Series! Starting Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern, watch this space for a new series of STScI research talks designed for early-career researchers to communicate their results to an international audience of astronomers. The Discovery Seminars will present recent results led by STScI and Johns Hopkins University postdocs. The seminars will cover a broad range of astronomical topics and will be accessible for a general astronomer audience. This series will be held as a fully virtual event. Talks will alternate between different time slots to maximize participation from astronomers in different time zones. See the list of upcoming talks here:
https://www.stsci.edu/events?timeframe=upcoming&Type=discovery-seminar-series

12/25/2021

Webb is go for launch just after 7:00 AM Eastern today! Our Webb Launch Celebration will begin right here at 6:00 AM Eastern. Join us!

12/21/2021

The James Webb Space Telescope completed its Launch Readiness Review and is safe atop its Ariane 5 rocket. However, the weather in French Guiana isn’t looking good. Launch is now no earlier than Dec 25 at 7:20 a.m. EST (12:20am UTC). See http://go.nasa.gov/32kNpS9

12/14/2021

We are very excited about the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set for December 25 just after 7:00 AM Eastern. Join us here at 6:00 AM Eastern on December 25 for a live-streamed Webb Launch Celebration, which will include pre-launch presentations from several mission leaders (see full agenda in comments below). You do not need a Facebook account to view this live stream. Archived video of this event will also be available here for later viewing. After this pre-launch event, you can go to NASA's website for live streaming of the JWST launch (see link in comments below).

10/25/2021

The NASA Hubble Fellows Symposium is taking place this week on Zoom!

See the schedule here:

12:00 Welcome — Ken Sembach (STScI)12:15 Opening Remarks — Paul Hertz (NASA)12:30 Introduction — NHFP Leads (various)