Project News

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.

Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescope Meeting Convenes

TMT • July 10th, 2017

The fifth edition of the Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescope meeting (AO4ELT) was recently held in Puerto de la Cruz, in the Canary island of Tenerife, Spain. The...

ThoughtWorks Team Gathers at TMT Project Office for Second Inception Meeting

TMT • July 6th, 2017

The TMT Observatory Software team, the Indian TMT Coordination Center (ITCC), ThoughtWorks software engineers and remote participants in India and Germany recently gathered for...

New Catalogues for Herschel Legacy Archive

Herschel • June 20th, 2017

Two new catalogues, based on data from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory, have been released to the scientific community. The point source catalogues are examples of a new type...

Dan Masters won the STAR prize for the biggest impact by a postdoc in the Euclid consortium

Euclid • June 16th, 2017

Daniel works on developing techniques to measure distances to the more than a billion galaxies that will be imaged by Euclid, an ESA-led space mission focused on understanding...

Major Milestone for TMT Multi Segment Integration and Test Facility

TMT • June 13th, 2017

An integral piece of the Thirty Meter Telescope’s Multi Segment Integration and Test facility (MSIT) has just been delivered to California. Traveling for a month between Osaka,...

The Art of Exoplanets

Spitzer • June 8th, 2017

How do you visualize distant worlds that you can't see? IPAC's Robert Hurt and Tim Pyle are featured in a new video produced by JPL that highlights how they use scientific data...

TMT Communications and Information Systems Kick-off Meetings

TMT • June 8th, 2017

Managers and technical representatives of TMT and Sev1Tech Inc., an IT consulting firm, gathered on May 25 at the TMT’s Project Office in Pasadena for a detailed overview of the...

GALEX • June 6th, 2017

Data from the GALEX spacecraft suggest that planets around cool dwarf stars may be subjected to intense flares.

KOA NIRSPEC Data Release

Keck Observatory Archive • June 5th, 2017

The Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) has released browse-quality spectra extracted with a new, automated pipeline from 1,821 nights of NIRSPEC high-dispersion data.