A NASA establishment for research with the Hubble Space Telescope. It was founded in 1981 at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and is managed for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. STScl plans the observing programme for the HST, and receives, analyses, and archives the resulting data. It will fulfil the same functions for the James Webb Space Telescope.

http://www.stsci.edu/ Official website.