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• 1 January 2026: Solar Orbiter/IRIS/Aditya Joint Workshop, Berlin, Germany, March 16-19, 2026
• 1 January 2025: Hinode18/IRIS16 meeting, London, UK, June 23-27 2025
• 18 October 2024: New press release using IRIS high-cadence flare observations
• 16 April 2024: New NASA press release using IRIS observations
• 1 April 2024: Hinode-17/IRIS-15/SPHERE meeting in Bozeman, Montana, July 23-27, 2024
• 3 Oct 2023: Confronting numerical models of the solar chromosphere and corona with high resolution observations - a RoCS/MUSE/IRIS workshop February 27 to March 2, 2023, Svalbard, Norway
• 18 Sep 2023: IRIS-13 meeting in Niigata, Japan, September 25-29, 2023

Older news

2022

• 27 Apr 2022: Keep track of flare observations using recently developed very high-cadence observing programs

2020

• 23-Sep 2020: NASA press release about coronal heating discovery using IRIS observations
• 29 May 2020: Coordinated and co-aligned IRIS/SST datasets now available in our search engine (SST under "More")
• 28 May 2020: New IRIS Python Library and Tutorial available
• 27 May 2020: New Tutorials available

2019

• 30 July 2019: Always wondered how to interpret the optically thick Mg II h & k lines? Check out our new IRIS2 inversion tool that provides physical variables as a function of height in the chromosphere for each IRIS raster.
• 3 June 2019: New tutorials now available on IRIS science, IRIS data analysis, optically thick and thin variables and crispex
• 2 June 2019: Want to analyze coordinated datasets from IRIS, SDO/AIA or Hinode/SOT? Check out the new IRIS Technical Note (ITN) 32, the Data Cruiser quicklook tool, and "Coordinated Data" in our data search engine
• 1 June 2019: IRIS-10 workshop in Bangalore, India, November 4-8, 2019
• 31 May 2019: Questions about IRIS calibration? Check the new paper!

2018

• 11 Jul 2018: All IRIS-9 talks now available online
• 24 Jan 2018: IRIS-9 website available with list of invited speakers

2017

• 16 Nov 2017: Want to download co-aligned SDO/AIA, Hinode/SOT and IRIS data, all in the same IRIS data format? New datacubes now available at our IRIS search engine with documentation here
• 23 Feb 2017: Second announcement of IRIS-8/Hinode-11 workshop in Seattle from 30 May to 2 June 2017
• 20 Feb 2017: List of Flares updated with IRIS observing details (IDL-save and CSV files)
• 30 Jan 2017: List of flare-related papers available

2016

• 17 May 2016: IRIS Movie of the Day pages added with lots of new Mercury transit movies
• 9 May 2016: IRIS observes Mercury transit
  
• 5 May 2016: Make your own IRIS using Lego!
• 30 Mar 2016: Support for ALMA cycle 4 solar observations added
• 28 Mar 2016: List of Flares observed with IRIS added

2015

• 1 Dec 2015: IRIS-6 science workshop in Stockholm, Sweden in June 2016
• 30 Nov 2015: 2nd announcement of IRIS-7 workshop in Weihai, China
• 29 Oct 2015: Completion of IRIS-5 tutorial workshop in Pune, India
• 25 Aug 2015: NASA and JAXA press releases on IRIS/Hinode results about coronal heating mechanism
• 15 Jul 2015: Video of IRIS-4 talks and tutorials online
• 4 Jun 2015: Want to request IRIS observations?
• 1 Apr 2015: Updated iris_get_response.pro available
• 31 Mar 2015: All Full-disk scans since launch available
• 4 Feb 2015: IRIS/Hinode search tool available
• 3 Feb 2015: List of flares observed with IRIS available
• 27 Jan 2015: Database of IRIS-related papers available
• 13 Jan 2015: New on-line data analysis guide available

2014

• 15 Dec 2014: Mark your calendar for IRIS-4 workshop in Boulder, CO from May 18-22, 2015
• 16 October 2014: Press release on IRIS papers in Science
  
• 5 June 2014: IRIS tutorial (AAS) now available

2013

• 9 December 2013: IRIS-related numerical models (Bifrost) now available
• 2 December 2013: IRIS mission/instrument paper now available
• 31 October 2013: Calibrated level 2 data now available:
  • Find the data at LMSAL or at University of Oslo
  • Technical documentation updated and available
• 1 October 2013: Quicklook slit-jaw movies available
• 24 July 2013: First Light Press Release
• 27 June 2013: IRIS launched

2009

• 19 June 2009: NASA announced selection of IRIS.