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SCIENCE & DATA CENTER FOR
ASTROPHYSICS & PLANETARY SCIENCES

ENSCI USER PANEL 2024 REPORT RELEASED

News Release • October 24th, 2024 •

ENSCI User Panel has released its 2024 report, with evaluation of ENSCI
performance, and recommendations for future planning.



KNOW THY STAR KNOW THY PLANET 2

Conference • February 3rd, 2025

Know Thy Star 2 focuses on the effects that stars have in limiting our ability
to determine planetary masses, orbits, bulk compositions, and atmospheric
abundances - and the state of the art knowledge and techniques that have been
developed to mitigate the stellar effects. By Knowing thy Star, we can better
Know Thy Planet!



ZTF PUBLIC DATA RELEASE 21: NOW AVAILABLE

Announcement • May 20th, 2024

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and IPAC at the California Institute of
Technology announce ZTF Public Data Release 21.



ENSCI USER SURVEY

News Release • November 21st, 2024 •

ENSCI is doing a survey of the US Euclid community to support the upcoming
Euclid Q1 data release. Take the survey, so we can better support you!



HOW NASA’S LUNAR TRAILBLAZER COULD DECIPHER THE MOON’S ICY SECRETS

Project News • October 29th, 2024

There’s water on the Moon, but scientists only have a general idea of where it
is and what form it is in. A trailblazing NASA mission will get some answers.



BACK IN THE CLEAN ROOM FOR FINAL TESTING!

News Release • November 19th, 2024 •

SPHEREx Observatory is back in the BAE cleanroom for final cleaning, testing and
closeouts prior to shipment to the launch site.



NEOWISE FINAL RELEASE NOW AVAILABLE

Project News • November 15th, 2024

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) and IPAC at
the California Institute of Technology announce the NEOWISE Final Data Release.



TELESCOPE FOR NASA’S ROMAN MISSION COMPLETE, DELIVERED TO GODDARD

Project News • November 14th, 2024

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking
the mysteries of the universe. The mission has now received its final major
delivery: the Optical Telescope Assembly, which includes a 7.9-foot (2.4-meter)
primary mirror, nine additional mirrors, and supporting structures and
electronics.



NASA’S NEOWISE SPACECRAFT RE-ENTERS ATMOSPHERE, BUT MORE DISCOVERIES AWAIT!

Project News • November 4th, 2024

NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)
spacecraft re-entered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday night, as
expected. Launched in 2009 as the WISE mission, the spacecraft has been mapping
the entire sky at infrared wavelengths over and over for nearly fifteen years.
During that time, more than one hundred thousand amateur scientists have used
these data in citizen science projects like the Milky Way Project, Disk
Detective, Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors, and
Exoasteroids.



WHY NASA’S SPHEREX MISSION WILL MAKE ‘MOST COLORFUL’ COSMIC MAP EVER

News Release • October 31st, 2024 •

The space telescope will detect over 100 colors from hundreds of millions of
stars and galaxies. Here’s what astronomers will do with all that color.



ENSCI USER PANEL 2024 REPORT RELEASED

News Release • October 24th, 2024 •

ENSCI User Panel has released its 2024 report, with evaluation of ENSCI
performance, and recommendations for future planning.



KNOW THY STAR KNOW THY PLANET 2

Conference • February 3rd, 2025

Know Thy Star 2 focuses on the effects that stars have in limiting our ability
to determine planetary masses, orbits, bulk compositions, and atmospheric
abundances - and the state of the art knowledge and techniques that have been
developed to mitigate the stellar effects. By Knowing thy Star, we can better
Know Thy Planet!



ZTF PUBLIC DATA RELEASE 21: NOW AVAILABLE

Announcement • May 20th, 2024

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and IPAC at the California Institute of
Technology announce ZTF Public Data Release 21.



ENSCI USER SURVEY

News Release • November 21st, 2024 •

ENSCI is doing a survey of the US Euclid community to support the upcoming
Euclid Q1 data release. Take the survey, so we can better support you!



HOW NASA’S LUNAR TRAILBLAZER COULD DECIPHER THE MOON’S ICY SECRETS

Project News • October 29th, 2024

There’s water on the Moon, but scientists only have a general idea of where it
is and what form it is in. A trailblazing NASA mission will get some answers.



BACK IN THE CLEAN ROOM FOR FINAL TESTING!

News Release • November 19th, 2024 •

SPHEREx Observatory is back in the BAE cleanroom for final cleaning, testing and
closeouts prior to shipment to the launch site.



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OUR MISSION

IPAC at Caltech partners with NASA, NSF, JPL and the world-wide research
community to advance exploration of our Universe. Beginning with the IRAS
mission in 1983 and spanning through 2MASS, Spitzer, Herschel, Planck,
WISE/NEOWISE and Euclid in recent years, we have enabled transformative research
of the entire sky. We provide science operations, user support, archives and
data services, and scientific vision to maximize discovery with observatories
both in space and on the ground. Next up, Lunar Trailblazer, SPHEREx, Roman, NEO
Surveyor, and UVEX are all preparing to launch in the year and years ahead. We
share these advances and discoveries with everyone through education outreach
programs and award-winning communications. Our community of active researchers
is dedicated and essential to fulfilling this mission.

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ARCHIVES & DATA SCIENCE

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IN DEVELOPMENT

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SCIENCE AT IPAC

Our community of active researchers is key to the strategic development and
execution of all programs supported by IPAC. IPAC scientific staff are engaged
in research spanning a broad range of fields in astrophysics and planetary
sciences. Areas of special focus include exoplanets; dark energy and cosmology;
star formation and galaxy evolution; asteroids and the solar system; and the
area in which IPAC has provided leadership for over three decades -- exploration
of the infrared and sub-mm universe.

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FEATURED RESEARCH

SCIENCE COLLABORATIONS


SCIENCE AT IPAC

Our community of active researchers is key to the strategic development and
execution of all programs supported by IPAC. IPAC scientific staff are engaged
in research spanning a broad range of fields in astrophysics and planetary
sciences. Areas of special focus include exoplanets; dark energy and cosmology;
star formation and galaxy evolution; asteroids and the solar system; and the
area in which IPAC has provided leadership for over three decades -- exploration
of the infrared and sub-mm universe.

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FEATURED STAFF

ANAHITA ALAVI
DEPUTY TASK LEAD FOR THE EUCLID NASA SCIENCE CENTER AT IPAC (ENSCI)

Featured Staff • November 13th, 2024

This profile series introduces scientists who support projects at Caltech/IPAC
while carrying out their own scientific research. In this profile, we feature
Anahita Alavi, the Deputy Task Lead for...

TERESA SYMONS
ASSISTANT STAFF SCIENTIST

Featured Staff • August 21st, 2024

In this profile, we feature Teresa Symons, an assistant staff scientist who
works on NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor.

More Featured Staff


EVENTS

Dec
4

CARRIE HOLT (LCO)

Science Talk • 12:15 PM, December 4th, 2024 • MR-102 and online (Zoom)



Dec
11

YU-HENG (IAN) LIN (CALTECH/IPAC)

Science Talk • 12:15 PM, December 11th, 2024 • MR-102 and online (Zoom)



Dec
18

SHARDHA JOGEE (U. TEXAS AT AUSTIN)

Science Talk • 12:15 PM, December 18th, 2024 • Online only (Zoom)



Feb
3

KNOW THY STAR KNOW THY PLANET 2

Conference • 9:00 AM, February 3rd - 7th, 2025 • Ramo Hall Caltech Campus

Know Thy Star 2 focuses on the effects that stars have in limiting our ability
to determine planetary masses, orbits, bulk compositions, and atmospheric
abundances - and the state of the art knowledge and techniques that have been
developed to mitigate the...

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IRSA

KOA

LTB

ROMAN

NASA EXOPLANET ARCHIVE

NEXSCI

HERSCHEL

NED

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NEO SURVEYOR

NEOWISE

SPHEREX

SPITZER

RUBIN

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