stsci.edu

The Space Telescope Science Institute is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope and for the James Webb Space Telescope. STScI is located on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus in Baltimore, Maryland and was established in 1981 as a community-based science center that is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. In addition to performing continuing science operations of HST and preparing for scientific exploration with JWST, STScI manages and operates the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes, the Data Management Center for the Kepler mission and a number of other activities benefiting from its expertise in and infrastructure for supporting the operations of space-based astronomical observatories. Most of the funding for STScI activities comes from contracts with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center but there are smaller activities funded by NASA's Ames Research Center, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the European Space Agency. The staff at STScI consists of scientists, spacecraft engineers, software engineers, data management personnel, education and public outreach experts, and administrative and business support personnel. There are approximately 100 Ph.D. scientists working at STScI, 15 of which are ESA staff who are on assignment to the HST project. The total STScI staff consists of about 675 people in 2019. More information...

Multilingual Wikipedia

In June 2020 the website stsci.edu was on the 9,483^rd place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 5,704^th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "stsci.edu" is the 9,160^th most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).

The website is placed before maine.edu and after inopressa.ru in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.

PR-score:

9,483^rd place

3,138,868

-675,431

AR-score:

9,160^th place

469,352

+1,421

F-score:

5,704^th place

2,299

+15

English Wikipedia (en)

PR-score:

8,461^st place

1,771,701

-298,509

AR-score:

9,077^th place

187,865

+190

F-score:

7,720^th place

531

+4

Russian Wikipedia (ru)

PR-score:

6,164^th place

316,369

-135,734

AR-score:

7,675^th place

24,186

+222

F-score:

7,682^nd place

85

0

Spanish Wikipedia (es)

PR-score:

10,102^nd place

192,753

-59,269

AR-score:

8,417^th place

26,616

-354

F-score:

5,313^th place

105

0

German Wikipedia (de)

PR-score:

9,045^th place

177,592

-21,595

AR-score:

12,247^th place

21,057

+29

F-score:

7,731^st place

71

0

Italian Wikipedia (it)

PR-score:

4,535^th place

147,933

-62,168

AR-score:

4,115^th place

38,881

+30

F-score:

3,010^th place

136

0

French Wikipedia (fr)

PR-score:

10,161^st place

108,948

-20,148

AR-score:

7,652^nd place

28,939

+141

F-score:

5,825^th place

120

+3

Chinese Wikipedia (zh)

PR-score:

11,836^th place

64,315

-3,395

AR-score:

5,352^nd place

13,163

+117

F-score:

2,629^th place

132

+1

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