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IRSA curates the science products from NASA's infrared and submillimeter missions. IRSA is part of Caltech-IPAC. https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 38m

It's Tutorial THURSday! Today's video is an overview of which WISE delivery is which, which may be important for your best use of the WISE Image Service. The video is in HD and has English subtitles (click on the 'cc' button in the lower right of your YouTube window). youtu.be/eOLssWRaELI

IRSA Tutorial 0404v3: Which WISE Releases Are Which?

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 22h

Forgot to post this yesterday on Tutorial Tuesday! Today's video is a short introduction to the WISE Image Service. As always, the video is in HD and has English subtitles (click on the 'cc' button in the lower right of your YouTube window to turn on the closed captioning). youtu.be/jsVZwvrBnAM

IRSA Tutorial 0401v3: WISE: brief overview

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 6d

It's Tutorial Tuesday! Today's video is an overview of how to use the precovery search in the Spitzer Heritage Archive. As always, the video is in HD and has English subtitles (click on the 'cc' button in the lower right of YouTube window to turn on the closed captioning). youtu.be/ef8GzjYAejo

IRSA Tutorial 0304v3: SHA: Moving Object Precovery

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 9d

It's Tutorial Tuesday! Today's video is an overview of how to find ready-to-use Spitzer data. As always, the video is in HD and has English subtitles (click on the 'cc' button in the lower right of your YouTube window to turn on the closed captioning). youtu.be/F4CSriWqQJw?...

IRSA Tutorial 0303v3: SHA: Getting already-reduced data

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 13d

Want to play with some of our Python tutorials? They're all collected here: caltech-ipac.github.io/irsa-tutoria...

Caltech/IPAC—IRSA Python Notebook Tutorials - IRSA Tutorials

IRSA Python Notebook tutorials to demostrate accessing data served by the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA)

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 14d

It's Tutorial THURSday! Today's video is an overview of how to use the Spitzer Heritage Archive. As always, the video is in HD and has English subtitles (click on the 'cc' button in the lower right of your YouTube window to turn on the closed captioning). youtu.be/hZ3SlSstF0E

IRSA Tutorial 0301v3: Spitzer Heritage Archive (SHA) Introduction

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Roman for Scientists @nancyromansci.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 Deadline Alert! 🚨
The #AAS247 early registration and abstract deadline is coming up fast — Monday, October 6! Don’t miss your chance to share your science.
While you’re at it, be sure to register for the exciting Roman workshops. 🌌✨
We at @NancyRomanSci can’t wait to see you there!

IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 15d

It's Tutorial Tuesday! Today's video talks about using Data Discovery and the Data Collection Explorer to find data I need near M8. As always, the video is in HD and has English subtitles (click on the 'cc' button to turn on the closed captioning). youtu.be/-vJMINsS0KA

IRSA Tutorial 0204v2: Case Study: finding all the SEIP mosaics I need

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 20d

It's Tutorial THURSday! Today's video talks about the Data Collection Explorer. This tool is on its way to replace our legacy Image and Spectrum Server (Atlas) tool. As always, the video is in HD and has English subtitles. youtu.be/0whF6StEwxY

IRSA Tutorial 0203v2: Overview of DCE

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 21d

The Evolution of Interstellar Dust (SAG-4) data set is now available via DCE. irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/Hersche...

IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 21d

The Mass-loss of Evolved StarS (MESS) data set is now available via DCE. irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/Hersche...

IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 21d

The HERschel Ultra Luminous InfraRed Galaxy Survey (HERUS) is now available via DCE. irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/Hersche...

IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 21d

The Galactic Census of High and Medium-mass Protostars (CHaMP) is now available via DCE. irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/CHaMP/o...

IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 21d

Herschel Dust, Ice, and Gas in Time (DIGIT) is now available via DCE. irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/Hersche...

IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 21d

New data release: Three-mm Ultimate Mopra Milky Way Survey (ThrUMMS) DR6. It's also available in DCE.
irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/ThrUMMS...

IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 21d

New data release: The Extended Atlas of Low-resolution Spectra from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) -- it's also available in DCE.
irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/IRAS/LR...

IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 21d

Here's IRSA's latest newsletter. Are you subscribed? conta.cc/4ntuqJm

IRSA Newsletter: Issue 2025.5

Email from Caltech/IPAC Euclid Spectra, DCE, AAS OpenUniverse and Euclid Q1 Workshops Issue 2025.5 September 24, 2025 Euclid Spectra Data Products Available IRSA now offers interactive visualization o

IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 21d

IRSA now offers interactive visualization of Euclid spectra through the Euclid Data Explorer web application. (No movies yet, but there is online help!) irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications...

screenshot of the Euclid Data Explorer web app, where there is a list of sources on the left and a spectrum on the right with a large emission line.

IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · 22d

I missed yesterday's Tutorial Tuesday! This video is on the SPHEREx Data Explorer. As always, the video is in HD and has English subtitles (click on the 'cc' button in the lower right of your YouTube window to turn on the closed captioning). youtu.be/KfKdILiDgi0

IRSA Tutorial 1301v1: Intro to SPHEREx Data Explorer

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · Sep 16

It's Tutorial Tuesday! Today's video is on the Euclid Data Explorer. You may have noticed that many of the additional catalogs don't have RA/Dec! In order to find objects in those catalogs, you have to search by object ID. This movie shows you how. The HD video has subtitles. youtu.be/vZ5MSeip6Bc

IRSA Tutorial 1204v1: Euclid Data Explorer & Catalogs without Positions

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · Sep 15

Here is IRSA's most recent newsletter. Are you subscribed? conta.cc/42yquP7

IRSA Newsletter: Issue 2025.4 (Sep 12)

Email from Caltech/IPAC SPHEREx Spectrophotometry Tool, PhysCOS Workshop, IRTF Proposal Call Issue 2025.4 September 12, 2025 SPHEREx Spectrophotometry Tool Available SPHEREx is a NASA Astrophysics Med

IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · Sep 12

Here's a new video on how to use the brand new SPHEREx Spectrophotometry Tool. As always, the video is in HD and has English subtitles (click on the 'cc' button in the lower right of your YouTube window to turn on the closed captioning).
youtu.be/8Pwq4wkQuEw

IRSA Tutorial 1302v1: Intro to SPHEREx Data Explorer Spectrophotometry

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · Sep 11

It's Tutorial THURSday! Today's video is on the Euclid Data Explorer. You may have noticed that many of the additional catalogs don't have RA/Dec! In order to find objects in those catalogs, you have to search by object ID. This movie shows you how. youtu.be/vZ5MSeip6Bc

IRSA Tutorial 1204v1: Euclid Data Explorer & Catalogs without Positions

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's Tutorial Tuesday! Today's video is on the Euclid Data Explorer. If you've played around with it a little, you may have noticed that the images seem to be "jumping around" and it might not be immediately obvious why it's doing that. This video explains it! youtu.be/2U8KKT1W010

IRSA Tutorial 1202v1: Euclid Data Explorer - why is the sky 'jumping'?

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IRSA IPAC @irsaipac.bsky.social · Sep 4

IRSA has released a new spectrophotometry tool for measuring spectra from SPHEREx images. It's part of the SPHEREx Data Explorer, so it's easy to visualize the spectra. There is updated online help, but no videos yet.
irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/sph...
irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications...

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