Announcements

High school teachers and students doing real astronomy research? Absolutely!

Project News • January 9th, 2019

Once again, more than 30 teachers, students and astronomy educators from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) will be attending the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 6 through January 10 in Seattle, WA.

IPAC/NExScI Deputy Director, Dr. Dawn Gelino, Gives TEDxCERN Talk

IPAC News • December 19th, 2018

Dr. Dawn Gelino, IPAC/NExScI Deputy Director, gives a talk at TEDxCERN on "Looking for Life on Exoplanets".

Call for Proposals for 2019A NASA Keck Time

Project News • August 15th, 2018

The call for proposals for NASA Keck time in observing semester 2019A (February 1 - July 31, 2019) is now open for professional research using the NASA allocation for telescope observing time at the W.M. Keck Observatory.

Caltech/IPAC astronomer wins 2018 Robert J. Trumpler Award

IPAC News • August 14th, 2018

BJ Fulton, a scientist at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) at Caltech/IPAC is being honored with the 2018 Robert J. Trumpler Award.

Cross-Matching the Entire All-Sky 2MASS Point Source Catalog with NED

Project News • August 2nd, 2018

A major update to the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database was released featuring the results of cross-matching the entire all-sky 2MASS Point Source Catalog with NED.

42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly

IPAC News • June 27th, 2018

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), home of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), announces the 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly which we are honored to host on behalf of COSPAR and the US National Academy of Sciences in beautiful Pasadena, California, on 14-22 July, 2018.

18th Annual Greater IPAC Science Symposium

IPAC News • June 4th, 2018

The eighteenth annual Greater IPAC Science Symposium will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, June 20 and 21, 2018. The Science Symposium is a forum for presenting, discussing and learning more about the diverse research that is being carried out across the Greater IPAC.

NEOWISE 2018 Data Release

Project News • April 19th, 2018

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and IPAC present the NEOWISE 2018 Data Release. The 4-year NEOWISE archive now contains over 10.2 million calibrated image sets and a database of over 76.8 billion source detections.

NASA Announces Class of 2018 Sagan, Hubble and Einstein Postdoctoral Fellows

Project News • April 3rd, 2018

NASA is pleased to introduce the 2018 class of 2018 Sagan, Hubble and Einstein Postdoctoral Fellows under the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.

IRTF Archive at IRSA

Project News • February 27th, 2018

The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) Archive is now operational at IRSA. It is currently serving SpeX spectrograph data from the 2016B semester. IRTF is a 3.0m telescope optimized for IR observations, with 50% of the time reserved for studies of Solar System objects.