Project News

TMT Board of Governor Member Dr. Saku Tsuneta Visits TMT Technical Lab

TMT • October 28th, 2019

Dr. Saku Tsuneta, Director General of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), recently met with TMT experts at the technical laboratory in Monrovia, California....

TMT Common Software Successfully Passes Pre-Shipment Review

TMT • October 15th, 2019

The Thirty Meter Telescope Common Software (CSW), which has been under development the past two years, recently passed its pre-shipment review, meaning it is consistent with its...

TMT Executive Director Dr. Edward Stone Receives 2019 Shaw Prize in Astronomy

TMT • October 2nd, 2019

TMT International Observatory Executive Director, Dr. Edward C. Stone, has been awarded the prestigious 2019 Shaw Prize in Astronomy for his leadership on the Voyager project.

TMT’s Telescope Control System Passes Preliminary Design Review

TMT • October 1st, 2019

The TMT Telescope Control System (TCS) successfully passed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and is now ready to enter its final design phase.

Spitzer Spots a Starry Region Bursting With Bubbles

Spitzer • September 30th, 2019

This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are inflated by wind and radiation from young, massive stars. Each...

Completion of the structural and thermal tests of the Euclid satellite

Euclid • September 19th, 2019

Thales and ESA have announced the completion of the structural and thermal tests of the Euclid satellite using the STM model at the Thales Alenia Space's premises in Cannes,...

TMT Quality Assurance Helps in the Production of High-Quality M1 Parts

TMT • September 16th, 2019

New developments within the TMT Quality Assurance program include the acquisition of an advanced metrology system to measure to very high precision the telescope primary mirror...

ESA Euclid Multimedia Gallery

Euclid • September 6th, 2019

ESA's Euclid Multimedia Gallery collects milestone images in the development of the Euclid Mission. The latest images show the integrated Structural and Thermal Model (STM) of...

Searching for Leviathan, Part 4: Active Galaxies and Jets

TMT • September 3rd, 2019

In this series of articles, we've discussed what we know about black holes—how we can find them, how old they are, what their masses are. Now, we'll describe jets that we see...

Sixteen Images for Spitzer's Sweet 16

Spitzer • August 27th, 2019

NASA launched its Spitzer Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun on Aug. 25, 2003. Since then, the observatory has been lifting the veil on the wonders of the cosmos, from...