Project News

How NASA’s Roman Could Help Find Other Earths by Surveying Space Dust

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • March 16th, 2022

A team of scientists found NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of space dust littered throughout dozens of nearby planetary systems’ habitable zones, or the regions around stars where temperatures are mild enough that liquid water could pool on worlds’...

NASA’s Roman Mission Could Snap First Image of a Jupiter-Like World

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • February 24th, 2022

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting. The mission aims to photograph worlds and dusty disks around nearby stars with detail up to a thousand times better than possible with other observatories.

Day of Discovery: 7 Earth-Size Planets

Spitzer • News Release • February 22nd, 2022

Five years ago, astronomers revealed a spectacular collection of other worlds: the TRAPPIST-1 system.

IRSA Highlights from 2021

Infrared Science Archive • Project News • January 27th, 2022

IRSA had a number of milestones, releases and updates in 2021. Here is a recap of some of the high-level announcements.

Visualization Explores a Massive Star's Great Eruption

Universe Unplugged • News • January 25th, 2022

It was once one of the brightest stars in the heavens, easily visible to mariners navigating by the southern sky in the mid-1840s. But the star Eta Carinae quickly faded into obscurity after its brief outburst. Now, over a century and a half later, NASA space observatories (probing from infrared...

NED 2021 Release Highlights

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database • Project News • January 19th, 2022

In 2021, NED had six releases. The NED November and December 2021 Releases included integration of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC 2.0.1), 989K new object links, 323K new sources from the literature cross-identified with NED objects, and 5.3 million new photometric data points have been...

ZTF Analyzes Impact of Starlink Satellites

ZTF • News Release • January 17th, 2022

A study of archival images from Zwicky Transient Facility shows an increase in satellite streaks but state that the effect on the science conducted with the ZTF survey is so far minimal.

NASA’s Spitzer Illuminates Exoplanets in Astronomical Society Briefing

Spitzer • News Release • January 13th, 2022

The infrared observatory may help answer questions about planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, including how they form and what drives weather in their atmospheres.

A Wolf-Rayet star explodes as a supernova

ZTF • News Release • January 12th, 2022

For the first time, astronomers have observed an extremely massive star - generally suspected to sneakily die as a black hole - explode in a supernova. The team of astronomers, led by a team from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, made the initial discovery back in June 2019 with the...

First Wolf-Rayet star observed as supernova

ZTF • News Release • January 12th, 2022

A first-of-its-kind exploding star – thought to have existed only in theory – was recently discovered with the Zwicky Transient Facility by an international team of astronomers.

How NASA’s Roman Could Help Find Other Earths by Surveying Space Dust

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • March 16th, 2022

A team of scientists found NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of space dust littered throughout dozens of nearby planetary systems’...

NASA’s Roman Mission Could Snap First Image of a Jupiter-Like World

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • February 24th, 2022

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting. The mission aims to photograph worlds and dusty...

Day of Discovery: 7 Earth-Size Planets

Spitzer • February 22nd, 2022

Five years ago, astronomers revealed a spectacular collection of other worlds: the TRAPPIST-1 system.

IRSA Highlights from 2021

Infrared Science Archive • January 27th, 2022

IRSA had a number of milestones, releases and updates in 2021. Here is a recap of some of the high-level announcements.

Visualization Explores a Massive Star's Great Eruption

Universe Unplugged • January 25th, 2022

It was once one of the brightest stars in the heavens, easily visible to mariners navigating by the southern sky in the mid-1840s. But the star Eta Carinae quickly faded into...

NED 2021 Release Highlights

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database • January 19th, 2022

In 2021, NED had six releases. The NED November and December 2021 Releases included integration of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC 2.0.1), 989K new object links, 323K new...

ZTF Analyzes Impact of Starlink Satellites

ZTF • January 17th, 2022

A study of archival images from Zwicky Transient Facility shows an increase in satellite streaks but state that the effect on the science conducted with the ZTF survey is...

NASA’s Spitzer Illuminates Exoplanets in Astronomical Society Briefing

Spitzer • January 13th, 2022

The infrared observatory may help answer questions about planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, including how they form and what drives weather in their atmospheres.

A Wolf-Rayet star explodes as a supernova

ZTF • January 12th, 2022

For the first time, astronomers have observed an extremely massive star - generally suspected to sneakily die as a black hole - explode in a supernova. The team of...

First Wolf-Rayet star observed as supernova

ZTF • January 12th, 2022

A first-of-its-kind exploding star – thought to have existed only in theory – was recently discovered with the Zwicky Transient Facility by an international team of astronomers.