Project News

TMT Acknowledges the California Fires and Mount Wilson

TMT • September 18th, 2020

Many major wildfires are devastating lands and homes across the entire west coast, including in California, Oregon and Washington. Although wildland fires are common at this...

NASA Missions Spy First Possible Planet Hugging a Stellar Cinder

Spitzer • September 16th, 2020

The violent events leading up to the death of a star would likely drive away any planets. The newly discovered Jupiter-size object may have arrived long after the star died.

TMT Optical Cleaning System Reaches Design Milestone

TMT • September 8th, 2020

TMT Optics and Systems Engineering teams recently conducted a technical evaluation of the primary mirror optical cleaning system, marking a major milestone in its design. The...

Primary Mirror for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Completed

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • September 3rd, 2020

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror, which will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, has been completed. Using this mirror, Roman will...

Where Are Stars Made? NASA's Spitzer Spies a Hot Spot

Spitzer • August 25th, 2020

The nebula known as W51 is one of the most active star-forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy. First identified in 1958 by radio telescopes, it makes a rich cosmic tapestry in...

Unveiling Rogue Planets With NASA’s Roman Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • August 21st, 2020

New simulations show that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to reveal myriad rogue planets – freely floating bodies that drift through our galaxy untethered...

Citizen Scientists Discover Dozens of New Cosmic Neighbors in NASA Data

Spitzer • August 18th, 2020

Using a NASA-designed software program, members of the public helped identify a cache of brown dwarfs – sometimes called failed stars – lurking in our cosmic neighborhood.

Meet the TMT Team: Interview with Caty Pilachowski

TMT • August 18th, 2020

Meet the TMT team with a new interview in our blog. Before the pandemic we met with Caty Pilachowski, Professor of Astronomy, who has held several leadership positions in the...

Latest Update from TMT

TMT • August 11th, 2020

An important project for the global astronomy community, TMT is working collaboratively with the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s)...

Statistical Evidence for Temperature Inversions in Ultra-Hot Jupiters

Spitzer • August 5th, 2020

The thermal structure of hot gas giant exoplanet atmospheres is likely to be inverted for the hottest planets, a class of planets known as ultra-hot Jupiters.