The first stars and tiny galaxies formed about 150-300 million years after the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago. They were the seeds that led to today鈥檚 myriad galaxies, including our own Milky Way. But the details of when and how they developed are still unclear.
The University of Hawaii has applied for and been granted a Conservation District Use Permit (CDUP) to build and operate the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea. The permit was granted by the Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) of Hawaii鈥檚 Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR).
Following the successful conclusion of the Thirty Meter Telescope鈥檚 Environmental Impact Statement and Final Design Review of the observatory enclosure, TMT worked with acclaimed science animator and producer Dana Berry on a new, more accurate set of renderings of the observatory and its support building as they will appear on Mauna Kea.
Richard Ellis, member of the Thirty Meter Telescope鈥檚 (TMT) Board of Directors and Science Advisory Committee, has received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Awarded annually since 1824, the Gold Medal is the Society's highest honor and one of the premier prizes in astronomy. Ellis, Caltech鈥檚 Steele Professor of Astronomy, joins a long list of distinguished recipients, including several from Caltech: Don Anderson, Peter...
The Thirty Meter Telescope鈥檚 (TMT) primary mirror has much in common with the 10-meter mirrors on the Keck telescopes.
The testing campaign to identify the best site for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) has been one of the most complete atmospheric studies in recent years. The TMT project office and the U.S. National Science Foundation provided funding for the site testing campaign, led jointly by the TMT and the Association of University Research in Astronomy (AURA).
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will enable astronomers to explore the universe in unprecedented clarity when it achieves 鈥渇irst light鈥� later this decade. The public, however, will get an exciting preview of what TMT will observe as part of the two-day expo for the USA Science and Engineering Festival, October 23 and 24 in Washington, D.C.
On August 13, 2010, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released its Astro2010 report,聽New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, which indentified a Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT) as crucial for ground-based astronomy in the coming decade. The report also recommended that the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) immediately select a GSMT partner.
Sometime during the first 300 million years after the Big Bang, the first tiny seeds of galaxies began to collapse and form stars. As these galaxies grew during the subsequent 300鈥�400 million years they ionized the hydrogen gas that permeated the cosmos.
The Minister of Science and Technology of India, Mr. Prithviraj Chavan, announced today the decision of India to join the Thirty Meter Telescope Project (TMT) as an Observer. TMT is the next-generation astronomical observatory that is scheduled to begin scientific operations in 2018 on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
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