Project News

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TMT Board Defers Decision on Thirty Meter Telescope Site

TMT • News Release • April 13th, 2018

The TMT International Observatory (TIO) Board of Governors at its meeting this week deferred a decision on whether to continue towards building the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, or to consider the alternative in the Canary Islands.

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Sharper Focus -Part 1- The Why and How of Adaptive Optics

TMT • News Release • April 11th, 2018

The Atmospheric Lens TMT’s unprecedented ability to peer into the depths of the Universe means it will have a phenomenal impact on many areas of astronomy. But in this age of space-based telescopes, you may have wondered how a ground-based observatory like TMT (or some of the other...

NASA Announces Class of 2018 Sagan, Hubble and Einstein Postdoctoral Fellows

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) • Project News • April 3rd, 2018

NASA is pleased to introduce the 2018 class of 2018 Sagan, Hubble and Einstein Postdoctoral Fellows under the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.

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Thirty Meter Telescope’s Refrigeration Cooling System Passes Conceptual Design Review

TMT • Engineering & Technology • March 19th, 2018

Pasadena, March 16, 2018 - The conceptual design and scope of TMT’s Refrigerant Cooling System (REFR), which was executed and developed by a close Chinese-North American collaboration, successfully passed a recent conceptual design review. This system will be used to provide cooling to...

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Planning for the Next Generation of TMT Science Instruments is Already Underway

TMT • Science & Astronomy • March 8th, 2018

Pasadena, CA - March 8, 2018 - Future users of the Thirty Meter Telescope are now preparing studies of the science instruments that will be deployed after the telescope's first-light instrumentation suite.

NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

Spitzer • News Release • March 1st, 2018

Much like detectives who study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the “fingerprints” of water in the atmosphere of a hot, bloated, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away. And, they found a lot of water. In fact, the...

IRTF Archive at IRSA

IRSA • Project News • February 27th, 2018

The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) Archive is now operational at IRSA. It is currently serving SpeX spectrograph data from the 2016B semester. IRTF is a 3.0m telescope optimized for IR observations, with 50% of the time reserved for studies of Solar System objects.

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China's Contribution to TMT's Primary Mirror

TMT • News Release • February 22nd, 2018

Until recently, eyeglass lenses were actually made of glass-remember the "Coke-bottle-bottoms" some people had to wear? Given the fragility and other quirky qualities of glass, you can imagine the delicacy with which the optician had to grind every lens blank to achieve exactly the right...

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TMT Observatory Software Infrastructure Progress

TMT • Engineering & Technology • February 15th, 2018

The year started at full speed for the TMT Observatory Software (OSW) team, who met in Pune, India with their colleagues from the India TMT Coordination Center (ITCC) and ThoughtWorks engineers to conduct their 3rd Common Software (CSW) sub-system inception meeting.

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Stressed Mirror Polishing

TMT • News Release • February 12th, 2018

“Wax on, wax off,” said Mr. Miyagi to "The Karate Kid" (1984), to help the kid develop efficiency of movement, attention to detail, and grace—while also polishing Mr. Miyagi’s classic car. What could this possibly have to do with TMT?

TMT Board Defers Decision on Thirty Meter Telescope Site

TMT • April 13th, 2018

The TMT International Observatory (TIO) Board of Governors at its meeting this week deferred a decision on whether to continue towards building the Thirty Meter Telescope in...

Sharper Focus -Part 1- The Why and How of Adaptive Optics

TMT • April 11th, 2018

The Atmospheric Lens TMT’s unprecedented ability to peer into the depths of the Universe means it will have a phenomenal impact on many areas of astronomy. But in this age of...

NASA Announces Class of 2018 Sagan, Hubble and Einstein Postdoctoral Fellows

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) • April 3rd, 2018

NASA is pleased to introduce the 2018 class of 2018 Sagan, Hubble and Einstein Postdoctoral Fellows under the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.

Thirty Meter Telescope’s Refrigeration Cooling System Passes Conceptual Design Review

TMT • March 19th, 2018

Pasadena, March 16, 2018 - The conceptual design and scope of TMT’s Refrigerant Cooling System (REFR), which was executed and developed by a close Chinese-North American...

Planning for the Next Generation of TMT Science Instruments is Already Underway

TMT • March 8th, 2018

Pasadena, CA - March 8, 2018 - Future users of the Thirty Meter Telescope are now preparing studies of the science instruments that will be deployed after the telescope's...

NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

Spitzer • March 1st, 2018

Much like detectives who study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the “fingerprints” of water in the...

IRTF Archive at IRSA

IRSA • February 27th, 2018

The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) Archive is now operational at IRSA. It is currently serving SpeX spectrograph data from the 2016B semester. IRTF is a 3.0m telescope...

China's Contribution to TMT's Primary Mirror

TMT • February 22nd, 2018

Until recently, eyeglass lenses were actually made of glass-remember the "Coke-bottle-bottoms" some people had to wear? Given the fragility and other quirky qualities of...

TMT Observatory Software Infrastructure Progress

TMT • February 15th, 2018

The year started at full speed for the TMT Observatory Software (OSW) team, who met in Pune, India with their colleagues from the India TMT Coordination Center (ITCC) and...

Stressed Mirror Polishing

TMT • February 12th, 2018

“Wax on, wax off,” said Mr. Miyagi to "The Karate Kid" (1984), to help the kid develop efficiency of movement, attention to detail, and grace—while also polishing Mr. Miyagi’s...