Science & Data Center for
Astrophysics & Planetary Sciences

Euclid Quick Release 1 (Q1) data will go public on March 19, 2025! These include the imaging and spectroscopic data from a single visit to the Euclid Deep Fields, totaling 53 square degrees in sky coverage.

Dimensions of IPAC explores the wide spectrum of activities happening at IPAC, and here we highlight IPAC's role in the SPHEREx mission.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, marking the completion of the Roman payload. Now the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will begin joining the payload to the spacecraft.

There were many changes in the IPAC team in 2024. We filled 20 positions with people who either joined IPAC afresh or with existing staff who transitioned to new roles. There were also leadership changes with David Ciardi appointed the Deputy Director of NExScI, Jessie Christansen named the new Chief Scientist of NExScI, Tracy Chen appointed the new ZTF Task Lead, Anastasia Laity named the new IRSA Deputy Task Lead and Anahita Alavi starting as the ENSCI Deputy Task Lead.

Dr. Ben Montet set out to study black holes and then radio transients, and along the way he discovered exoplanets! His team gathered enormous amounts of radial velocity data on stars that eventually helped them identify signals that, after eliminating all other possibilities, meant they were planets orbiting those stars. Find out which of the 20 planets he's helped find is his favorite, as well as his favorite fictional planet, in the latest installment of Explore Exoplanets!

NASA and SpaceX are targeting late February 2025 for the launch of the agency’s next astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx. Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

ENSCI is doing a survey of the US Euclid community to support the upcoming Euclid Q1 data release. Take the survey, so we can better support you!

SPHEREx Observatory is back in the BAE cleanroom for final cleaning, testing and closeouts prior to shipment to the launch site.

Know Thy Star 2 focuses on the effects that stars have in limiting our ability to determine planetary masses, orbits, bulk compositions, and atmospheric abundances - and the state of the art knowledge and techniques that have been developed to mitigate the stellar effects. By Knowing thy Star, we can better Know Thy Planet!

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce ZTF Public Data Release 21.