Announcements

Framework for NASA’s Roman Spacecraft Moves to Goddard Clean Room

Project News • April 26th, 2023

The primary structure that will serve as the “bones” of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has moved into the big clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The spacecraft bus, Roman’s primary support element, will now be built upon this skeletal framework.

The Young Cluster of Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe

IPAC News • April 26th, 2023

Takahiro Morishita, a staff scientist at IPAC, was first author on a paper using JWST data to look back in time to the early beginnings of the universe, a mere 650 million years after the Big Bang. and observe the baby stages of seven interacting galaxies forming into a protocluster. This...

Goddard Team Builds, Tests Calibrator for NASA’s Roman in Record Time

Project News • April 19th, 2023

A vital subsystem for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently delivered to Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, and installed in the spacecraft’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI). Called the Simplified Relative Calibration System (sRCS), this component will allow astronomers to measure...

IPAC Selects Ben Rusholme As Its First Chief Engineer

IPAC News • April 17th, 2023

IPAC is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Benjamin Rusholme to serve in the new and inaugural role of Chief Engineer at IPAC.

Keck Planet Finder First Data Release & Moving Object Search Available in PyKOA

Project News • April 11th, 2023

KOA announces the first release of Keck Planet Finder (KPF) data, and the Moving Object Search Service (MOSS) is now accessible through the Python client PyKOA.

NEOWISE 2023 Data Release

Project News • March 22nd, 2023

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the NEOWISE 2023 Data Release.

Millions of Galaxies Emerge in New Simulated Images From NASA's Roman

Project News • March 8th, 2023

Scientists have created a gargantuan synthetic survey that shows what we can expect from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s future observations. Though it represents just a small chunk of the real future survey, this simulated version contains a staggering number of galaxies – 33 million of...

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Rewind the Universe

Project News • March 1st, 2023

Weighing OJ 287 and the project MOMO

IPAC News • February 23rd, 2023

An international research group led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and including Seppo Laine from Caltech/IPAC, presents important new results on the galaxy OJ 287, based on the most dense and longest radio-to-high-energy observations to...

Dawn Gelino Elected American Astronomical Society Vice President

IPAC News • February 14th, 2023

Dr. Dawn Gelino, Senior Staff Scientist at Caltech/IPAC and Deputy Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, was elected as the newest AAS Vice President for a three-year term starting summer 2023.