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In a First, NASA Measures Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf

Spitzer • April 9th, 2020

For the first time, scientists have directly measured wind speed on a brown dwarf, an object larger than Jupiter (the largest planet in our solar system) but not quite massive...

Arianespace and ESA announce the Euclid satellite’s launch contract for dark energy exploration

Euclid • April 6th, 2020

Arianespace and ESA have announced the signing of a launch services contract for the Euclid satellite – with the mission’s timeframe for liftoff starting in mid-2022 from the...

Warped Space-time to Help WFIRST Find Exoplanets

Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope at IPAC • March 30th, 2020

To date, astronomers have found most planets when they pass in front of their host star in events called transits, which temporarily dim the star's light. WFIRST data can spot...

NEOWISE 2020 Data Release

Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • March 26th, 2020

The NEOWISE Reactivation 2020 Release adds approximately 2.5 million image sets and 18.7 billion source detections to the public archive. These data were acquired during the...

Testing of TMT’s Primary Mirror Segment in Progress

TMT • March 23rd, 2020

The first of TMT’s Primary Mirror (M1) segment prototypes was recently tested and polished using the Ion Beam Figuring (IBF) process.

TMT Reaches Major Milestone with Completion of Fully Populated Mirror Segment Prototypes at the Multi-Segment Integration & Test Facility (MSIT)

TMT • March 6th, 2020

The Multi-Segment Integration & Test (MSIT) facility at the TMT lab in Monrovia, California, is now fully populated with seven aluminum mirror segment prototypes.