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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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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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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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Teaching the Teacher: How Educators and Students Conduct Authentic NASA Research

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • January 6th, 2026

At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 4 through January 8 in Phoenix, AZ, 8 astronomy educators and their students from the...

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NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other

SPHEREx • December 18th, 2025

Launched in March, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. While not visible to the human eye, these 102 infrared...

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Cycle 1 Call for Proposals

Roman • December 10th, 2025

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Cycle 1 Call for Proposals is open! It marks the first opportunity to submit proposals to conduct scientific investigations with Roman’s...

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NASA funds Euclid science in ROSES 2025

Euclid • December 4th, 2025

Starting in 2025, NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) includes Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADAP) investigations based on data releases from...

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