Project News

Comet NEOWISE Sizzles as It Slides by the Sun, Providing a Treat for Observers

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • July 8th, 2020

A comet visiting from the most distant parts of our solar system is putting on a spectacular nighttime display. Named Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, the comet made its...

Black Hole Collision May Have Exploded with Light

ZTF • June 25th, 2020

When two black holes spiral around each other and ultimately collide, they send out ripples in space and time called gravitational waves. Because black holes do not give off...

Public Data Release 3

ZTF • June 24th, 2020

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

Black Hole Collision May Have Exploded with Light

ZTF • June 15th, 2020

With the help of Caltech's Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and located at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, the...

Astronomers' Discovery Sheds New Light On Famous Einstein Ring

Keck Observatory Archive • June 1st, 2020

Determined to find a needle in a cosmic haystack, a pair of astronomers time traveled through archives of old data from W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauankea in Hawaii and old...

NASA Telescope Named For ‘Mother of Hubble’ Nancy Grace Roman

Roman • May 20th, 2020

NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first...

A Tale of Two Telescopes: WFIRST and Hubble

Roman • April 20th, 2020

NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), planned for launch in the mid-2020s, will create enormous cosmic panoramas. Using them, astronomers will explore everything...

SPHEREx • April 1st, 2020

The SPHEREx team is making these files defining the instrument performance specifications publicly available to the community.

Warped Space-time to Help WFIRST Find Exoplanets

Roman • 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...