A collection of recent TMT feature stories.
04.16.2012
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project has submitted a funding proposal today to the National Science Foundation (NSF) to plan a potential partnership between the organizations. more »
02.24.2012
With the commissioning of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) later this decade, a new era in observational astronomy will begin. more »
01.05.2012
Ground-based astronomy has taken a big leap forward today as the Gemini South telescope unveiled the first ultra-sharp image produced using a next-generation adaptive optics system. The Thirty Meter... more »
09.06.2011
Masanori Iye, the director of the TMT project office at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), has been awarded the prestigious 2010 Toray Science and Technology Prize. more »
07.29.2011
The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a key early light instrument for TMT. IRIS has an infrared camera that will exploit the best image quality available from TMT, and a versatile integral... more »
05.23.2011
Special Event of the International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2011 – As part of the 4th International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging (ISPDI... more »
03.31.2011
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’s myriad galaxies, including our own Milky... more »
11.24.2010
By Warren Skidmore, TMT Scientist
The Thirty Meter Telescope’s (TMT) primary mirror has much in common with the 10-meter mirrors on the Keck telescopes. more »
07.14.2010
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 300–400 million... more »
04.01.2010
One of the most important milestones in the development and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is the precision polishing of TMT’s primary mirror segments. Each of the 492... more »