sci26002 — Announcement

Hubble & Webb “Enriching the Universe” Conference: Virtual Registration

19 March 2026

- By Chris Evans -

Following a tremendous response to the call for abstracts from you, the user community, I’m excited to share that the scientific programme is now available for the latest in the series of ESA-sponsored conferences on the science from the Hubble and Webb missions. The conference, “Enriching the Universe: From Primordial Nucleosynthesis to Exoplanet Atmospheres”, will be held in Vienna, Austria on 13 to 16 April 2026, shortly ahead of the 36th anniversary of Hubble’s launch.

The conference programme features a combination of invited and contributed talks and posters with the objectives to:

• Highlight the latest Hubble and Webb results in studies of chemical evolution and nucleosynthesis over all scales, from understanding the chemistry of nearby protoplanetary disks and planetary atmospheres, to the earliest enrichment by the first galaxies and stars.
• Explore what the most pressing scientific questions are for Hubble and Webb in the coming decade, and where their unique capabilities will have the most impact.
• Identify new opportunities of where Hubble and Webb can work in concert with other space-borne and ground-based facilities, to enable new scientific breakthroughs.

Registration to join the conference virtually remains open here until 27 March, giving you the chance to listen to the talks and ask questions of the speakers. In addition to the invited and contributed talks, we will also feature short ‘context talks’ from those presenting posters at the conference.

In addition to the two main science pillars in the programme, of nucleosynthesis over cosmic time and the chemical journey from dust & ice to atmospheres, the conference will also feature updates on the Hubble and Webb missions, a session on the European HST and JWST science archives, and a future-look session including keynote speakers from ESA, ESO and NASA GSFC.

I hope that some of you are able to join us online in April, to share in some of the latest discoveries from the missions!

Contacts

Chris Evans
ESA/HST & ESA/JWST Project Scientist
ESA Office, STScI Baltimore, USA
Email: [email protected]