Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California with an image of the Milky Way in the background. The stars represent the number of supernovae discovered in each direction and the ...

That's why Palomar Observatory, Caltech’s research station in north San Diego County, isn’t using its iconic 16-foot-wide Hale telescope under its massive white dome. Instead, it's using a ...

Astronomers still use the Hale 200″ for research. But Palomar isn’t on this ... None other than the 64-meter Murriyang Telescope at Parkes Observatory. Because of its superior sensitivity ...

A stunning new discovery reveals that white dwarf stars — once thought to explode in predictable ways — actually detonate through an astonishing variety of mechanisms. From star cannibalism to violent ...

X-ray Observatory and the Palomar Observatory. Get ready to bang your head in the name of science. A pair of NASA space telescopes teamed up to capture a nebula that looks like a flame-throwing ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. ABSTRACT.The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical ...

As US astronomers cheer the completion of the state-of-the-art project to rejuvenate the iconic Hale ... year-old telescope at the California Institute of Technology’s Palomar Observatory ...

The ZTF camera, installed on the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory, scans the entire northern sky daily in three optical bands, reaching a depth of 20.5 magnitude—one million ...