Announcements

New NASA Mission will Study Ultraviolet Sky, Stars, Stellar Explosions

Project News • February 13th, 2024

As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies and stars evolve. The space telescope, called UVEX (UltraViolet EXplorer), is targeted to launch in 2030 as NASA’s next...

NASA’s Roman to Use Rare Events to Calculate Expansion Rate of Universe

Project News • February 7th, 2024

Astronomers investigating one of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos – the rate at which the universe is expanding – are readying themselves to study this puzzle in a new way using NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Once it launches by May 2027, astronomers will mine Roman’s wide...

NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test

Project News • January 31st, 2024

A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027.

NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps

Project News • January 18th, 2024

Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever before. After NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, by May 2027, researchers will use its images to explore...

ZTF PUBLIC DATA RELEASE 20: Now available

Announcement • January 17th, 2024

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

High School Teachers and Students Continue Doing Real Astronomy Research

Project News • January 10th, 2024

At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 7 through January 11 in New Orleans, LA, 18 astronomy educators and 21 of their students from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) are attending. For over a decade, NITARP has partnered small...

A Community for Astronomy Visualization

Project News • January 1st, 2024

Science visualization is a key component of astronomy communications for both the research and outreach communities. Recently, several exciting steps have been taken to better connect practitioners of “AstroViz” (a nickname for the discipline), spanning researchers, educators, developers, and...

Meet the Infrared Telescopes That Paved the Way for NASA’s Webb

Project News • December 22nd, 2023

The Webb telescope has opened a new window onto the universe, but it builds on missions going back 40 years, including Spitzer and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.

Prepping for Data From the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Project News • December 19th, 2023

As part of a plan to prepare for the quantity and range of data that will be coming in from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently scheduled to launch by May 2027, NASA has granted funding to five project infrastructure teams (PITs), which will write software, run simulations, and plot...

IPAC Welcomes Flo Langilotti as New IPAC Facilities Lead

IPAC News • December 14th, 2023

IPAC welcomes our new Facilities Coordinator, Flo Langilotti. Flo takes up the task after IPAC said goodbye to long-time IPACer Jack Lampley.