Project News

Thirty Meter Telescope Welcomes Recommendations of Decadal Survey

TMT • News Release • August 13th, 2010

On August 13, 2010, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released its Astro2010 report, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, which indentified a Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT) as crucial for ground-based astronomy in the coming decade. The report also recommended...

Giant Ultraviolet Rings Found in Resurrected Galaxies

GALEX • News Release • August 11th, 2010

Astronomers have found mysterious, giant loops of ultraviolet light in aged, massive galaxies, which seem to have a second lease on life.

Science with the Thirty Meter Telescope: The Young and Distant Universe

TMT • News Release • July 14th, 2010

Sometime during the first 300 million years after the Big Bang, the first tiny seeds of galaxies began to collapse and form stars. As these galaxies grew during the subsequent 300–400 million years they ionized the hydrogen gas that permeated the cosmos.

Planck Takes It All In

Planck • News Release • July 6th, 2010

A new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year -- surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins.

India Joins Thirty Meter Telescope Project

TMT • News Release • June 24th, 2010

The Minister of Science and Technology of India, Mr. Prithviraj Chavan, announced today the decision of India to join the Thirty Meter Telescope Project (TMT) as an Observer. TMT is the next-generation astronomical observatory that is scheduled to begin scientific operations in 2018 on Mauna Kea,...

Astronomers Discover Star-Studded Galaxy Tail

GALEX • News Release • June 17th, 2010

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered a galaxy tail studded with bright knots of new stars. The tail, which was created as the galaxy IC 3418 plunged into the neighboring Virgo cluster of galaxies, offers new insight into how stars form.

TMT Co-sponsors Conference on Emerging Discipline -- Astroinformatics

TMT • News Release • June 16th, 2010

About a hundred experts in astronomy, information technology, and applied computer science have gathered at Caltech to define a new field at the intersection of these disciplines. The emerging field of astroinformatics reflects how science is changing in the 21st century, powered by the...

Steidel to Receive 2010 Cosmology Prize of Gruber Foundation

TMT • News Release • June 16th, 2010

Charles Steidel, the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology and co-chair of the Thirty Meter Telescope Science Advisory Committee, is the recipient of the 2010 Cosmology Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation in recognition of his revolutionary...

TMT Project Scientist Jerry Nelson Wins Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

TMT • News Release • June 6th, 2010

Jerry Nelson, project scientist for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will share the $1 million Kavli Prize in Astrophysics with two other researchers for their innovations in the field of telescope design....

TMT's Site Testing Campaign Subject of Public Lecture at Palomar

TMT • News Release • April 28th, 2010

Quest for the Best Window on the Universe: Location may be important in real estate, but it’s essential for astronomy, especially when the home you’re building is for the world’s most advanced and powerful telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). But how do you find the best and what makes...

Thirty Meter Telescope Welcomes Recommendations of Decadal Survey

TMT • August 13th, 2010

On August 13, 2010, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released its Astro2010 report, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, which indentified a Giant...

Giant Ultraviolet Rings Found in Resurrected Galaxies

GALEX • August 11th, 2010

Astronomers have found mysterious, giant loops of ultraviolet light in aged, massive galaxies, which seem to have a second lease on life.

Science with the Thirty Meter Telescope: The Young and Distant Universe

TMT • July 14th, 2010

Sometime during the first 300 million years after the Big Bang, the first tiny seeds of galaxies began to collapse and form stars. As these galaxies grew during the subsequent...

Planck Takes It All In

Planck • July 6th, 2010

A new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year -- surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins.

India Joins Thirty Meter Telescope Project

TMT • June 24th, 2010

The Minister of Science and Technology of India, Mr. Prithviraj Chavan, announced today the decision of India to join the Thirty Meter Telescope Project (TMT) as an Observer....

Astronomers Discover Star-Studded Galaxy Tail

GALEX • June 17th, 2010

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered a galaxy tail studded with bright knots of new stars. The tail, which was created as the galaxy IC 3418 plunged into the...

TMT Co-sponsors Conference on Emerging Discipline -- Astroinformatics

TMT • June 16th, 2010

About a hundred experts in astronomy, information technology, and applied computer science have gathered at Caltech to define a new field at the intersection of these...

Steidel to Receive 2010 Cosmology Prize of Gruber Foundation

TMT • June 16th, 2010

Charles Steidel, the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology and co-chair of the Thirty Meter Telescope Science Advisory Committee, is...

TMT Project Scientist Jerry Nelson Wins Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

TMT • June 6th, 2010

Jerry Nelson, project scientist for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will share the $1...

TMT's Site Testing Campaign Subject of Public Lecture at Palomar

TMT • April 28th, 2010

Quest for the Best Window on the Universe: Location may be important in real estate, but it’s essential for astronomy, especially when the home you’re building is for the...