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Around The InstituteSpace Astronomy Summer Program
Each summer STScI brings around a dozen highly motivated college students to Baltimore, Maryland, for a Space Astronomy Summer Program. This program runs ten weeks, from mid-June to mid-August, and is designed for upper division undergraduates with a strong interest in space astronomy. Students work individually with STScI researchers and staff on research projects that might include data reduction and interpretation, software development, scientific writing, preparing data for public releases. Students attending the Summer School will receive a stipend. Read more... 2010 May SymposiumThe 2010 May Symposium will bring together two communities of astronomers, those studying resolved stellar populations in the nearby Universe and those focusing on better understanding the properties and evolution of stellar populations in the highest redshift systems. Read more... Nix/Hydra WorkshopThe principal objective of this workshop is to discuss our understanding of Nix and Hydra on the fifth anniversary of their discovery, as part of the planning for the detailed reconnaissance of the Pluto system in 2015 by NASA's New Horizons mission. The workshop will focus on Nix and Hydra in the context of Pluto formation, Kuiper Belt Object analog bodies, and the general topic of KBO satellites. Read more... Astrobiology Lecture Series 2009-2010The Planets, Life, and the Universe lecture series brings exciting domestic and international speakers on astrobiology to the STScI and Johns Hopkins University. The monthly lectures are highly multidisciplinary and cover a broad range of topics, from the formation and evolution of exoplanets through early Earth history to pre-biotic chemistry, the origin of life and biological evolution. More info... |
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