Project News

First TMT Mirror Segment Installed for Testing

TMT • September 14th, 2017

On September 7, 2017, a TMT Primary Segment Assembly (PSA), fitted with an aluminum mirror segment, was successfully installed into the Multi-Segment Integration & Test (MSIT)...

Scientists Improve Brown Dwarf Weather Forecasts

Spitzer • August 17th, 2017

Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clouds -- specifically, hot patchy clouds made of iron droplets...

Grace Under Pressure: TMT’s Rotating Enclosure

TMT • August 14th, 2017

As I write this, the final design for TMT’s enclosure—a huge, moveable dome that will house the telescope—is nearing completion. A substantial portion of the final design has...

TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System

Spitzer • August 11th, 2017

Researchers say in a new study that the TRAPPIST-1 star is quite old: between 5.4 and 9.8 billion years. This is up to twice as old as our own solar system, which formed some...

Annual Summer Internship Symposiums in Hilo organized by the Akamai Internship Program

TMT • August 5th, 2017

The Akamai Workforce Initiative’s Internship Program will hold its Student Internship Symposiums on Hawaii Island in Hilo and Waimea on Monday, August 7. Hawaii college interns...

Hawaii Hearings Officer Recommends Issuance of a State Permit to Build TMT on Maunakea

TMT • August 2nd, 2017

After nearly five months of evidentiary hearings, a former state Judge has recommended a key state permit be issued to the University of Hawaii to allow construction of the...

Scientists of the Euclid Consortium announce the release of the largest simulated galaxy catalogue ever built

Euclid • July 31st, 2017

A key ingredient in order to prepare the scientific exploitation of the Euclid dataset is the development of synthetic observations of the real survey: a cosmological simulation...

Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought

NEOWISE • July 25th, 2017

Comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the Sun are notoriously difficult to study. Because they spend most of their time far from our area of the...

Twenty-Nine Students Named To Akamai Summer Internship Program

TMT • July 24th, 2017

The Akamai Workforce Initiative, a local program dedicated to advancing Hawai‘i college students into science and technology careers, has announced the latest class of students...

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) • July 11th, 2017

A new study suggests some exoplanets are less dense than previously thought because of a second, hidden star in their systems.