Announcements

2023 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Hybrid Workshop Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Next Twenty Years

Project News • January 30th, 2023

Observations of an exoplanet’s atmosphere provide the best hope for distinguishing the makeup of its outer layers, and the only hope for understanding the interplay between formation, natal composition, chemical and disequilibrium processes, and dynamics & circulation. This year’s workshop will...

IRSA 2022 Highlights

Project News • January 30th, 2023

IRSA continued with a number of milestones, releases and updates in 2022. ZTF data abounded, and the community contributed a number of data sets.

Celebrating IRAS, NASA's First Infrared Space Telescope

Project News • January 25th, 2023

300 Days of Data That Spawned 40 Years of Infrared Astronomy

ALMA and JWST Reveal Galactic Shock is Shaping Stephan’s Quintet in Mysterious Ways

IPAC News • January 19th, 2023

IPAC astronomer Phil Appleton led a study of the shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan’s Quintet.

High school teachers and students continue doing real astronomy research

Project News • January 10th, 2023

Among the thousands of attendees at this year’s 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, WA, held January 8-12, 2023, will be 17 astronomy educators and 12 of their students from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP). For some, their presence at AAS...

Announcing the "First UVEX Community Workshop: Synergies and New Opportunities"

Project News • January 3rd, 2023

The UVEX team is pleased to announce the "First UVEX Community Workshop: Synergies and New Opportunities," which will be held in Pasadena, CA on the Caltech campus from 13 to 15 March, 2023.

New Data in NED - 2022 Release Highlights

Project News • December 22nd, 2022

NED had two data releases since Chandra data were integrated in April. More than 200K object links to 1800 new articles, 160K redshifts, and 153K new sources have been added.

Best Wishes from Caltech / IPAC for 2023 and Beyond!

IPAC News • December 22nd, 2022

Best wishes for 2023 from your friends and colleagues at IPAC!

Moon Water Imager Integrated With NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer

Project News • December 22nd, 2022

Lunar Trailblazer is one step closer to launching next year. Earlier this month, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory delivered a key science instrument to Lockheed Martin Space in Colorado, and the teams integrated it with the small satellite, or SmallSat. The instrument, called the High-resolution...

Assembly Begins on NASA’s Next Tool to Study Exoplanets

Project News • December 21st, 2022

The Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study planets around other stars. Putting it together will require a highly choreographed dance.