Project News

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...

News about TMT in Hawaii

TMT • August 22nd, 2019

Letter to the editor that Ed Stone, TMT Executive Director; Christophe Dumas, Observatory Scientist; and Gordon Squires, Vice President External Relations wrote recently in the...

Searching for Leviathan, Part 3: How Big?

TMT • August 19th, 2019

In previous articles in this series, we've looked at how we think black holes have formed, where they are, and how old they are. Now, let's look at how big they are.

NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface

Spitzer • August 19th, 2019

A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun.

Searching for Leviathan, Part 2: Where To Look, and How Old Is It?

TMT • August 18th, 2019

In the previous article of this series on leviathans, we looked at how we think black holes have formed. Now, let's look first at how we can find these black holes, and second...

NASA's Spitzer Spies a Perfectly Sideways Galaxy

Spitzer • August 7th, 2019

It might look like a lightsaber floating in space, but the red beam in the middle of this image is actually a galaxy seen edge-on.