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October 8, 2026
"They're kind of goth," says Zafar Rustamkulov of IPAC, lead author of a new study from the Caltech-led SPHEREx mission about dark celestial bodies called brown dwarfs.
October 2, 2026
The Coronagraph Instrument, designed to demonstrate technology that can directly image planets, is commanded at Caltech's IPAC astronomy center
September 24, 2026
For more than 100 years, the Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series has brought Caltech's research to the public, and this November, it kicks off another season.
September 8, 2026
The future Deep Synoptic Array will catch tens of thousands of FRBs, enhancing the power of this cosmology tool.
August 30, 2026
After over a decade of development with mission partners, Caltech, IPAC, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are excited to support and pursue new areas of research and discovery following Sunday's launch of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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October 16, 2026
2:00 pm
TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Evolution and Fates of Massive Stars and Binaries: From Nuclear Burning to Explosive Outcomes
Aldana Grichener,
Prize Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
October 19, 2026
4:00 pm
Astronomy Tea Talk
Oryna Ivashtenko,
PhD candidate,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Anthony Englert,
Postdoc,
Brown University & UC Davis,
October 20, 2026
8:15 am
KISS Short Course - Too Distant, Too Uncertain, Too Unforgiving: Assuring Autonomous Space Explorers We've Yet to Trust
October 23, 2026
2:00 pm
TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quasi-periodic eruptions: new transient probes of stars near supermassive black holes