Project News

NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface

Spitzer • August 19th, 2019

A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun.

NASA's Spitzer Spies a Perfectly Sideways Galaxy

Spitzer • August 7th, 2019

It might look like a lightsaber floating in space, but the red beam in the middle of this image is actually a galaxy seen edge-on.

NASA Delivers Hardware for ESA Dark Energy Mission

Euclid • July 29th, 2019

A major step towards the completion of the scientific payload on ESA's Euclid space mission has been completed, following the delivery of the detectors for the Near Infrared...

The Zwicky Transient Facility Begins Nightly Concurrent Observations of TESS Northern Fields

ZTF • July 27th, 2019

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has started to conduct a nightly survey of the TESS fields in g- and r-band. In 2019-2020 all of the 13 northern TESS sectors will be...

ZTF found Dead Stars Whipping Around Each Other in Minutes

ZTF • July 25th, 2019

Two dead stars have been spotted whipping around each other every seven minutes. The rare celestial find was made using Caltech's Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a...

Searching for Leviathan, Part 2: Where To Look, and How Old Is It?

TMT • July 12th, 2019

In the previous article of this series on leviathans, we looked at how we think black holes have formed. Now, let's look first at how we can find these black holes, and second...

GOVERNOR’S OFFICE – JOINT NEWS RELEASE – THIRTY METER TELESCOPE SET TO START CONSTRUCTION

TMT • July 10th, 2019

HONOLULU – Gov. David Ige and the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory (TIO) today announced that construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will begin the...

Coffee Chat on Mirror Segment Fabrication

TMT • July 9th, 2019

TMT staff Glen Cole and Christophe Dumas have a coffee-break conversation about Glen’s last trip to Japan and update on TMT mirrors fabrication and verification.

Facts about the TMT construction in Hawaii

TMT • July 9th, 2019

For more information on TMT update in Hawaii, please visit https://www.maunakeaandtmt.org/.

Habitable Zone: Scorched Earth Enigma

Universe Unplugged • July 9th, 2019

What can turn a seemingly perfect ocean-rich planet into an uninhabitable desert wasteland? Two future space explorers (played by Cas Anvar and Cara Gee of "The Expanse") aim to...