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Astronomers Discover the First Galaxy-wide Wobbling Black Hole Jet in a Disk Galaxy

IPAC News • January 8th, 2026

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of super-heated gas ever observed flowing from a nearby galaxy, providing the clearest evidence yet that a supermassive black hole can dramatically reshape its host galaxy far beyond its core.

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We finally know how the most common types of planets are created

IPAC News • January 7th, 2026

Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form.

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Best wishes from your friends and colleagues at IPAC

IPAC News • December 23rd, 2025

Wishing all our colleagues the very, very best for 2026!

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

IPAC News • December 5th, 2025

There were many changes in the IPAC team in the second half of 2025. We filled nine positions with people who either joined IPAC afresh or with existing staff who transitioned...

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NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Tracks Brightening of Interstellar Comet

SPHEREx • February 4th, 2026

NASA’s SPHEREx mission turned its infrared gaze on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in December 2025, adding to the deep pool of information the agency has gathered on what is only...

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SPHEREx Mission Team Wins ECAD Award

SPHEREx • February 2nd, 2026

The SPHEREx Mission Team wins the Sylvia A. Earle Award for Exploration Excellence.

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Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey

Roman • January 23rd, 2026

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the...

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Liftoff of Pandora - NASA’s Newest Planet-Observing Satellite

NASA Exoplanet Archive • January 12th, 2026

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora small satellite lifted off at 5:44 a.m. PST Sunday, Jan. 11, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base...

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NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond

NASA Exoplanet Archive • January 8th, 2026

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars.

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Young Galaxies Grow Up Fast

ALMA Large Program to Investigate C+ at Early Times • January 8th, 2026

Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the adolescent galaxies were fervently producing new...

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