Announcements 2024

12 December 2024: To celebrate another year of exciting images and discoveries from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble and ESA/Webb have released a new calendar for 2025 that showcases beautiful imagery from both missions. The 2025 calendar features a selection of images from Press Releases (from Hubble and Webb), Hubble Pictures of the Week and Webb Pictures of the Month published throughout 2024. These include imagery of planets, star clusters, galaxies, and more. It can now be accessed electronically for anyone to print, share and enjoy (please see the links provided below). The images featured in the calendar are as follows: Cover: Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud lies the young star cluster NGC 602 where star formation is ongoing. This image highlights the cluster stars, the young stellar objects, and the surrounding gas and dust ridges, while also showing background galaxies and …

18 October 2024: In April 2025, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope will be celebrating its 35th anniversary. Since its launch in 1990 Hubble has made 1.6 million observations of over 53 000 astronomical objects. To date, the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland holds 184 terabytes of processed data that are science-ready for use by astronomers around the world to use for research and analysis. A European mirror of the public data is hosted at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), in the European Hubble Space Telescope (eHST) Science Archive. To celebrate how the Hubble Space Telescope has been operating for over three decades and continues to make ground-breaking discoveries that shape our fundamental understanding of the Universe, ESA/Hubble is inviting proposals from organisations, institutions, and groups across Europe to maximise the reach and impact of this milestone with special events. In order to submit …

1 August 2024: The ESA/Hubble & ESA/Webb Outreach team is looking for a motivated individual to join the team as a proficient science writer to support a variety of roles and activities pertaining to the work of bringing the images and science from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to the public. This is a unique opportunity to develop skills and experience in science communication for high-reach and high-impact products that are disseminated worldwide as part of two well-known and beloved science missions. Position Overview The ESA/Hubble & ESA/Webb outreach team is composed of science communicators, scientists, science writers, visual artists, image processing specialists and more, who work together to showcase the research of the European Hubble & Webb users and institutions to the wider astronomical community and general public. This team is looking to add a dynamic, organized, and motivated individual to work alongside the team’s …