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For the latest on the Hubble servicing mission, please visit NASA's Servicing Mission 4 web site. Latest News
Around The InstituteBeyond JWST:The Next Steps in UV-Optical-Near IR AstronomyThe Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is sponsoring a workshop to engage the UV/optical/Near-IR astronomy community to discuss its long-term goals for space-based astronomy and astrophysics. The meeting will provide the UVOIR community an opportunity to look forward on a 25-year horizon to identify the scientific opportunities enabled by large and very large space telescopes and to outline a path forward that will form the basis for a community-led report to the 2010 Decadal Review Committee. Read more... 2009 May Symposium: The Search for Life in the UniverseThe concept that life might exist elsewhere besides the Earth has intrigued humankind for centuries. Technology has now enabled this fundamental question to be pursued with substantial international scientific vigor. The 2009 May Symposium, to be held May 4-7, 2009 at the Space Telescope Science Institute, will divide discussion of the motivations and expectations for the search for life in the universe into three distance domains that each require markedly different observational approaches and speakers from multiple disciplines: detecting Life within 50 AU of Earth, detecting life within 100 pc of Earth,and detecting life beyond 100 pc from Earth. Read more... Webb Telescope Approved for Development/LaunchOn July 10, 2008, NASA formally approved the JWST project to move into its implementation phase. This decision followed a successful Preliminary Design Review (PDR) in March 2008 and a Non-Advocate Review in April. While all the science instruments and the "long lead" items like the primary mirror segments are already being manufactured, this approval marks the transition of the program into Phase C (Final Design and Fabrication). Phase D covers system assembly, integration and testing and launch. Read more... HLA Data Release 2.5 Includes Contributed ProductsThe Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA) has entered its Data Release 2.5 (DR2.5) phase of operation. The highlight of DR2.5 is the inclusion of contributed products from the community. These include: ANGST (ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey), APPP (Archive Pure Parallels Program), COMA (ACS Treasury Survey of the Coma cluster), COSMOS (Cosmic Evolution Survey), GEMS (Galaxy Evolution from Morphologies and SEDs), GOODS (Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey), SGAL (Spiral Galaxies), a subset of Hubble Heritage images, STAGES (Space Telescope A901/902 Galaxy Evolution Survey), and UDF (Ultra Deep Field). Other contributed products are also available from MAST (Multimission Archive at STScI), and will be included in the HLA in the near future. The HLA project is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre. Read more... |
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