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Caltech IPAC@caltechipac.bsky.social · last mo.

"There is so much out there to explore," said Patrick Lowrance, the Roman Science Support Center co-lead at IPAC. Congrats to NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a successful launch 🚀 🔭 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/ready-t...

Ready to Roman: Caltech Teams Celebrate Telescope Launch, Look Ahead to Future

The next generation of exoplanet imaging technology, designed and built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for the agency, has launched aboard NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Sp...

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Caltech IPAC@caltechipac.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky! This is the most comprehensive spectral view of the infrared sky, with 102 colors (or wavelengths) of infrared light from observations made between May and December 2025. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

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Caltech IPAC@caltechipac.bsky.social · last yr.

This giant planet orbiting a tiny star is challenging our current theories 🧩🤔 Planet TOI-6894b is a low-density gas giant with a radius a bit larger than Saturn. The host star is the lowest mass star to have a transiting giant planet discovered to date. Read more: ipac.caltech.edu/news/discove...

Discovery of giant planet orbiting tiny star challenges theories on planet formation

The University of Warwick and UCL astronomers, as part of a global collaboration including partners in Chile, USA and Europe, have discovered the smallest known star to host a transiting giant planet,...

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