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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully completed integration of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument onto Roman’s Instrument Carrier, a piece of infrastructure that will hold the mission’s instruments, which will be integrated onto the larger spacecraft at a later date.

New observations probe a sphere of filaments around a dead star.

NASA has awarded $15.6 million in grant funding to 15 projects supporting the maintenance of open-source tools, frameworks, and libraries used by the NASA science community, for the benefit of all. IPAC Software Developer Brigitta Sipőcz led a proposal titled "Enhancement of Infrastructure and Sustained Maintenance of Astroquery” that received a Foundation award.

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

ESA released a spectacular cosmic map of 132 square degree observed by Euclid. Here is how you can download the highest resolution image.

With contributions from NASA, the mission will map a third of the sky in order to study a cosmic mystery called dark energy.

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 Repository and ...IPAC & IRSA job opportunities.

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 the light-bending effect that enables scientists to trace how dark matter is distributed in the Universe.

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!

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