IPAC News

IPAC Welcomes Flo Langilotti as New IPAC Facilities Lead

• December 14th, 2023

IPAC welcomes our new Facilities Coordinator, Flo Langilotti. Flo takes up the task after IPAC said goodbye to long-time IPACer Jack Lampley.

2024 IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship Call for Applications

• July 25th, 2023

Applicants are invited to apply for the 2024 IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship program.

#SoCaltech: Dawn Gelino

• July 19th, 2023

“I have attended almost every AAS [American Astronomical Society] meeting since I began graduate school in 1996. Every job I’ve ever had was made possible through networking at...

IPAC’s Euclid NASA Science Center Is Ready for Launch

• June 28th, 2023

It’s official: the Euclid telescope is planned to be launched into space starting on July 1, 2023, to embark on a six-year mission to create the largest, most accurate 3D map of...

IPAC Legend Jack Lampley Retires

• June 21st, 2023

One of the original IPACers, and a beloved “father figure” to all IPACers, Jack Lampley, is stepping off after 41 years at Caltech/IPAC and more than 52 years at Caltech/JPL.

The Young Cluster of Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe

• 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...

IPAC Selects Ben Rusholme As Its First Chief Engineer

• 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.

Weighing OJ 287 and the project MOMO

• 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...

Dawn Gelino Elected American Astronomical Society Vice President

• 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...

ALMA and JWST Reveal Galactic Shock is Shaping Stephan’s Quintet in Mysterious Ways

• January 19th, 2023

IPAC astronomer Phil Appleton led a study of the shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan’s Quintet.