Announcements 2025

29 January 2025: In April 2025, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope will be celebrating its 35th anniversary. 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 invited proposals from organisations, institutions, and groups across Europe to maximise the reach and impact of this milestone with special events. Public events will be held on and around April 24th 2025 in various ESA member states to celebrate this special milestone with their respective communities and to showcase a selection of special new Hubble images from the dedicated ESA/Hubble 35th anniversary celebration series that will be provided to event organisers with exclusive early access. The list of chosen host institutions is provided below: Stichting Volkssterrenwacht Philippus LansbergenMiddelburg, the NetherlandsContact: Rijk-Jan Koppejan: [email protected] Bender Makerspace / CC Binder / Municipality Puurs-Sint-AmandsPuurs-Sint-Amands, BelgiumContact: Davy Van den Bergh: [email protected] …

27 January 2025: On 24 April 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was sent into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery as the first space telescope of its kind. An incredible 35 years later, Hubble is more active and productive than ever. Each year of its mission has been marked by a breathtaking image newly released for the occasion. Now, ESA/Hubble is releasing a commemorative calendar for 2025, “Highlights from 35 Years of Discovery”, that looks back over a small selection of these anniversary images, taking us through the history and the highlights of the work done with Hubble. The calendar features images from a selection of past anniversaries between 1998 and 2024. These include imagery of nebulae, 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: The …