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How Far Away is That Galaxy? Vast Catalog Has Answers

Project News • January 5th, 2017

A team of researchers has compiled a special catalog to help astronomers figure out the true distances to tens of thousands of galaxies beyond our own Milky Way. The catalog, called NED-D, is a critical resource, not only for studying these galaxies, but also for determining the distances to...

Discovering Our Universe From The Classroom: NASA/IPAC Teacher Research Program

Project News • January 5th, 2017

High school teachers and students doing real astronomy research? Absolutely! Once again, more than 50 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...

NASA's NEOWISE Mission Spies One Comet, Maybe Two

Project News • December 29th, 2016

NASA's NEOWISE mission has recently discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and comet. Another--definitely a comet--might be seen with binoculars through next week.

NEOWISE 2016 Data Release

Project News • March 23rd, 2016

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center announce the NEOWISE 2016 Data Release.

Astronomers Discover Colossal 'Super Spiral' Galaxies

Project News • March 17th, 2016

A new class of behemoth spiral galaxies has been uncovered using NASA archival data.

Caltech Asteroid Hunter Gives TED Talk

Project News • February 19th, 2016

Caltech staff scientist Carrie Nugent, who discovers and characterizes asteroids utilizing data from the NASA NEOWISE program, presented her research as one of the selected speakers at the 2016 TED Conference this week in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Most Luminous Galaxy Is Ripping Itself Apart

Project News • January 15th, 2016

In a far-off galaxy, 12.4 billion light-years from Earth, a ravenous black hole is devouring galactic grub. Its feeding frenzy produces so much energy, it stirs up gas across its entire galaxy.

Teacher Program Brings NASA Research to Schools across America

Project News • January 6th, 2016

How many high school teachers and students can say they have presented their astronomy research alongside professional scientists at an international conference?

Galvanized by Genuine Research Experiences, NITARP Program Alumni Flock to International Astronomy Conference

Project News • January 6th, 2016

Look around at this year's winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Kissimmee, Florida and you're bound to run into a past, present or future participant in the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP). For more than a decade now, the program has paired educators...

NEOWISE: A Yearlong Look at the Sky

Project News • January 15th, 2015

NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft discovered and characterized 40 near-Earth objects (NEOs) in the first year after the mission was re-started in December 2013. Eight of the discoveries have been classified as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), based on...

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