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NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Applications Are Open

NHFP Fellowships support promising postdoctoral scientists pursuing independent research contributing to NASA Astrophysics. Applications close October 30, 2024.
Giacconi, Lasker, and Exoplanet Science Fellowship Applications Are Open

We are seeking to hire three Prize Fellows this year. Applications will close on Thursday October 24, 2024.
What Are Hubble and Webb Looking at Now?

Check out the revamped Space Telescope Live to find out what Hubble and Webb are currently observing.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope to Investigate Galactic Fossils

August 29, 2024
New Horizons Measurements Shed New Light on the Darkness of the Universe

August 28, 2024
Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren't Too Big for Their Britches After All

August 26, 2024

$Hundreds of small galaxies against the black background of space. Several white spiral galaxies are near image center. Most of the galaxies are various shades of orange and red, and many are too tiny to discern a shape. A handful of foreground stars show Webb's six diffraction spikes.$

NASA's Next Big Thing: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

3 Sep 2024

Speaker: Ori Fox (Space Telescope Science Institute) NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is readying for launch in late 2026. Roman will be able to survey...
Hot, Warm, Cold, and Frigid Exoplanets from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

5 Sep 2024

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, or Roman, is NASA’s next large astrophysics mission, due to be launched in late 2026. Roman will have a wavelength range, aperture, and...
High Performance Infrared Detectors: The Infrared Focal Plane Arrays in NASA’s Flagship Astrophysics Missions

10 Sep 2024

Infrared astronomy is dependent on hybrid CMOS infrared focal plane arrays (FPAs). The most advanced FPAs are those that use HgCdTe as the detector material. This talk will...
JWebbinar 36 - What’s New in JWST Cycle 4

10 Sep 2024

This JWebbinar will cover updates in Cycle 4 to JWST proposal preparation tools and policies of which JWST proposers should be aware. We will discuss updates to the Astronomer’s...
The Thirty Meter Telescope and the World of Science

11 Sep 2024

Abstract is forthcoming. Speaker: Robert Kirshner (TMT International Observatory)
Webb Office Hours

12 Sep 2024

The 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...