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Mission Update: #TESS Sector 50 ingest is complete.

HLSP Update: TICA - calibrated, quick-look #TESS full frame images from Sector 51, Orbit 2, available as of May 20th at MAST. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/tica

App Update: Version 1.3.0 of our modern search interface. This update improves the Download Overlay: redesigns the layout, increases the number of datasets supported from 100 to 2000, adds option to get cURL bulk download script with no limit on datasets. mast.stsci.edu/search/hst

New HLSP: GRS-WFC3 (Wong et al. 2021). Formally released at MAST as of now, this HLSP consists of multi-year, high-precision velocity fields of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot using HST, spanning 11 years of observations. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/grs-wfc3

HLSP Update: TICA, calibrated quick-look #TESS images from Sector 50, Orbit 1, now available at MAST. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/tica

HLSP Update: QLP (Huang et al.) calibrated #TESS light curves from Sector 39 now available at MAST. A total of 2,619,851 light curves are in this release. Sector 39 completes Year 3 of data for the QLP collection. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/qlp

HLSP Update: QLP (Huang et al.) calibrated #TESS light curves from Sector 38 now available at MAST. A total of 2,017,423 light curves are in this release. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/qlp

HLSP Update: TICA - calibrated, quick-look full frame images from #TESS of Sector 49, Orbit 2, now available. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/tica

Mission Update: #TESS Sector 47 ingest has begun. Watch this page for updates as ingest proceeds over the next week. outerspace.stsci.edu/display/TESS/T…

New HLSP: PHANGS-CAT, cluster and association catalogs from 5 of the 38 PHANGS-HST (@janiceleeastro et al.) galaxies. Both human- and machine-learning-based techniques are used. Associations are defined using three length scales. More catalogs are coming! archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/phangs-cat

Mission Update: A bit of a delayed announcement on Twitter, but #TESS Sector 46 ingest completed Feb. 2nd. All services have been updated with that Sector’s data.

HLSP Update: TICA Sector 47, Orbit 2 now available at MAST. Calibrated, quick-look #TESS full frame images. archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/tica

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