Infrared Science Archive Explorer

Live Script exploring IRSA astronomy images via API.
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Updated 9 Feb 2026

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The NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) supports infrared images from a variety of sources, including Wise, Spitzer, DSS, and SDSS. Catalog searching and image retrieval is available interactively through the IRSA web portal. This Live Script illustrates ways to access and process such images using the portal API.
This script may interest students and instructors of astronomy and physics. Additional educational Live Scripts by the author are available here.

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Duncan Carlsmith (2026). Infrared Science Archive Explorer (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/181478-infrared-science-archive-explorer), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2025a
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
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Version Published Release Notes
1.01

Added interactive_examples tag

1.0.0