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People of IPAC: New Leaders, New Roles, New Staff

IPAC News • December 14th, 2024

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.

NASA Funds Open-Source Software Underpinning Scientific Innovation

IPAC News • October 24th, 2024

NASA has awarded $15.6 million in grant funding to 15 projects supporting the maintenance of open-source tools, frameworks, and libraries used by the NASA science community, for...

Changes in NExScI Leadership

IPAC News • June 6th, 2024

Dr. David Ciardi, an IPAC senior science staff member and NExScI’s Chief Scientist, has been appointed Deputy Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI). His new...

IPAC Executive Director George Helou Stepping Down at the End of 2024

IPAC News • May 3rd, 2024

It’s the end of an era for IPAC, and the start of a new one. After more than four decades of dedicated service to IPAC, 25 years of which he was serving as IPAC Executive...

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Euclid Q1 release: March 19, 2025

Euclid • December 19th, 2024

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...

Dimensions of IPAC: SPHEREx Video

IPAC Communications and Education • December 18th, 2024

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

NASA Successfully Integrates Roman Mission’s Telescope, Instruments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • December 12th, 2024

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...

Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 17 Ben Montet (part 1)

IPAC Communications and Education • December 12th, 2024

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...

NASA Eyes Launching SPHEREx Sky-Mapping Mission in Early 2025

SPHEREx • December 9th, 2024

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...

Final data and undiscovered images from NASA’s NEOWISE

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • November 26th, 2024

On Nov. 1, 2024, while NASA’s NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech, was working on one further gift from the prolific...

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