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Latest news from IRSA: e-newsletter issue 2024.5

Infrared Science Archive • October 14th, 2024

The latest e-newsletter from IRSA is available! Highlights include the Zwicky Transient Facility Data Release 22, COSMOS UltraVista DR 6 images, unWISE Data in Amazon Open Data...

NASA Establishes New Class of Astrophysics Missions, Selects Studies

Probe Far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics • October 9th, 2024

Two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space were selected by NASA for additional review. Each proposal team will receive $5...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope’s 'Exoskeleton' Whirls Through Major Test

Roman • October 8th, 2024

A major component of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just took a spin on the centrifuge at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Called the Outer...

ZTF receives more support from the NSF

ZTF • October 3rd, 2024

The Zwicky Transient Facility will continue scientific operations for the next two years thanks to additional 1.6M USD support from the National Science...

NASA Completes Spacecraft to Transport, Support Roman Space Telescope

Roman • September 17th, 2024

The spacecraft bus that will deliver NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to its orbit and enable it to function once there is now complete after years of construction,...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Spacecraft Completes Environmental Testing

Lunar Trailblazer • September 16th, 2024

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft recently completed the shaking, chilling, baking, and other testing needed to ensure it can survive launch and the harsh conditions of space....

Weak gravitational lensing: how Euclid maps dark matter

Euclid • September 13th, 2024

ESA's Euclid mission is surveying the sky to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. But how can Euclid see the invisible? Watch this video to learn about...

Explore Exoplanets - The Discoverers (Episode 16)

IPAC Communications and Education • September 12th, 2024

Did the movie Avatar predict the discovery of the holy grail of exoplanets: a nearby Earth-like rocky planet orbiting a Sun-like star? Drs. Jessie Christiansen and Ashley...

Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter

Near-Earth Object Surveyor • August 30th, 2024

The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating.

Explore Exoplanets - The Discoverers (Episode 15)

IPAC Communications and Education • August 29th, 2024

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Telescope found its first planet candidate in 2009. Ten years later, KOI-4.01 was finally confirmed as an exoplanet by a team led by Dr. Ashley...