Project News

The aftermath of a supernova seen for the first time

ZTF • January 10th, 2024

A team of astronomers from the ZTF partnership used ZTF and a suite of other telescopes available to the ZTF partners to discover and analyze supernova SN2022jli. While...

High School Teachers and Students Continue Doing Real Astronomy Research

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • January 10th, 2024

At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 7 through January 11 in New Orleans, LA, 18 astronomy educators and 21 of their students...

A Community for Astronomy Visualization

IPAC Communications and Education • January 1st, 2024

Science visualization is a key component of astronomy communications for both the research and outreach communities. Recently, several exciting steps have been taken to better...

Meet the Infrared Telescopes That Paved the Way for NASA’s Webb

Infrared Astronomical Satellite • December 22nd, 2023

The Webb telescope has opened a new window onto the universe, but it builds on missions going back 40 years, including Spitzer and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.

Prepping for Data From the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Roman • December 19th, 2023

As part of a plan to prepare for the quantity and range of data that will be coming in from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently scheduled to launch by May 2027,...

SPHEREx Releases Catalog of Targets for Ices Studies

SPHEREx • December 6th, 2023

The SPHEREx List of ICE Sources (SPLICEs), just published by a team led by CfA astronomers Matthew Ashby and Joseph Hora, presents a catalog of 8.9 million objects of interest...

Webb Follows Neon Signs Toward New Thinking on Planet Formation

Spitzer • November 15th, 2023

Observations by the MIRI instrument on NASA’s Webb telescope are providing new clues about the time window when planets can form around a young star.

The weirdest of them all - a stellar corpse shows signs of life

ZTF • November 15th, 2023

The Zwicky Transient Facility captured repeated energetic flares from a stellar corpse, a phenomena astronomer are observing for the very first time. The...

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Chronicle the Active Cosmos

Roman • November 14th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible before.

Construction on NASA Mission to Map 450 Million Galaxies Is Under Way

SPHEREx • November 9th, 2023

Key elements are coming together for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, a space telescope that will create a map of the universe like none before. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is...