Project News

Radio signals reveal the origin of a supernova

ZTF • May 17th, 2023

Astronomers from the Zwicky Transient Facility collaboration based at the University of Stockholm, Sweden have uncovered the origin of a thermonuclear supernova explosion....

ZTF sees a star eating its world

ZTF • May 3rd, 2023

For the first time, astronomers have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet whole. The sun-like star, called ZTF SLRN-2020, lies about 15,000 light-years away in...

ZTF makes first discovery of a rare cosmic 'lunch'

ZTF • November 30th, 2022

Tidal disruption events are violent cosmic displays of a black hole devouring a nearby star. Astronomers uncovered a very rare flavor of such an event in the survey data...

1000 supernovae classified autonomously with machine learning

ZTF • November 22nd, 2022

Astronomers from the ZTF collaboration at Caltech have developed a machine learning algorithm that autonomously classifies supernovae and reports them to the global...

ZTF Public Data Release 12

ZTF • July 7th, 2022

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the twelfth ZTF Public Data Release. ZTF is an optical time-domain survey...

Native American tribe names a ZTF-discovered asteroid

ZTF • June 9th, 2022

Members of the Pauma band native American tribe, whose ancestral lands include the Palomar mountain, gathered at the Palomar Observatory to name a unique...

ZTF captures a possible candidate of a high-energy neutrino for a second time

ZTF • June 3rd, 2022

Led by researchers at DESY, Germany, astronomers have discovered and analyzed an extremely bright tidal disruption event that may be associated with a high-energy...

"Black Widow" Star Devours Its Rapidly Circling Companion

ZTF • May 4th, 2022

Astronomers from the ZTF partnership have discovered a black widow star system, in which the stars orbit around each other every 62 minutes—the shortest orbital period observed...

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...

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.