-By Chris Evans-
As 2024 draws to a close, it is a great opportunity to reflect on the incredibly rich and diverse science highlights from Hubble and Webb over the past year. I’m also looking forward to seeing what breakthroughs these two exceptional missions will reveal to us in 2025!
Hubble’s Cycle 32 programme observations started in mid-November. Competition for time in Cycle 32 remained high, with an oversubscription rate of 6:1 in response to the Call for Proposals. Of the selected GO and SNAP programmes, 30% are led by PIs in the ESA Member States. Thank you to those of you who contributed your time and expertise to the Cycle 32 Time Allocation Committee review, and congratulations to those who had proposals approved!
For Webb, your response to the Cycle 4 Call for Proposals was truly unprecedented! A total of 2,377 proposals were received in October, and 30% of these were led by PIs in the ESA Member States. The total time request is over 75,000 hours, which corresponds to an oversubscription rate of 9:1 for Cycle 4, which will start on 1 July 2025. For those of you currently working on Webb data, if you have questions about the data or the pipeline, let me highlight the ‘Webb Office Hours’ sessions that are introduced here.
As we look ahead to the new year, we are delighted to announce our ESA Hubble and Webb Calendar for 2025 here, which showcases some of the beautiful and inspiring images that were released this year from both missions.
April 2025 will be the 35th anniversary of Hubble's launch, so stay tuned for some celebratory images in the coming months as we revisit some of Hubble’s precious archive. Next April will also be the 15th anniversary of our Picture of the Week series, see here for more information on how your data can be featured.
All the very best wishes for the holiday season and a Happy New Year to you and your families!
Chris Evans
ESA/HST & ESA/JWST Project Scientist
ESA Office, STScI Baltimore, USA
Email: [email protected]
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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 …
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12 December 2024: - Owen Higgins -
2024 was another busy year for the ESA/Hubble/Webb science outreach team.
Webb has had another highly productive year of science operations, resulting in many new insights that we have been able to share with the public — too many to fully list here! Some of the highest-impact discoveries from Webb in the past year include …
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12 December 2024: -Bethany Downer-
April 2025 will mark fifteen years of the ESA/Hubble science outreach team publishing a new image every Monday from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The Picture of the Week series has become a flagship product for the ESA/Hubble programme throughout the years, now totalling nearly 800 individual images. The ESA/Hubble image archive also hosts more than 5300 images. …
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12 December 2024: -Chris Evans, Macarena Garcia Marin-
We would like to draw your attention to the ‘Webb Office Hours’ sessions that are organised virtually by STScI and held every two weeks. If you have any questions about JWST data, whether from your own programmes or archival data, these sessions are an excellent opportunity for you to directly interact with members of the …
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