News & Science Results from Palomar Observatory

• A Faint Star Orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor Discovered
  See also: A Companion for Alcor
  • Palomar Images of LCROSS Target Cabeus Crater
  • Unique Sky Survey Brings New Objects into Focus
    • NERSC Helps Expose Cosmic Transients
  • Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds at Last
  • Super-luminous stellar explosion observed via the Palomar Observatory, possibly resulting in a quark star
  • Astrophysicist Wins One of First Kavli Prizes
  • A Stellar Death Caught in the Act
    Palomar 60-inch telescope image of Supernovae
  • Caltech Helps Open the Universe in "WorldWide Telescope"
    • WorldWide Telescope
  • Palomar Observatory Hosts Live Interactive Virtual Exploration for Astronomy Day 2008 via HPWREN
  • Palomar Observatory now upgraded to 155Mbps connectivity via HPWREN
  • 'Shot in the Dark' Star Explosion Stuns Astronomers
  • Instrument to reveal hidden worlds by blocking out starlight
    • The Lyot Project
  • Caltech Astronomers Obtain Sharpest-Ever Pictures of the Heavens
  • Palomar Observatory's Sky Survey is the Cosmic Canvas in the New Google Sky
    • Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey Images in Google Sky
  • Astronomers Find Largest Exoplanet to Date
  • The Dwarf Planet Known as Eris is More Massive than Pluto, New Data Shows
  • Massive Transiting Planet with 31-hour Year Found Around Distant Star   and Astronomers Find Their Third Planet With Novel Telescope Network
  • Caltech and Berkeley Astronomers Identify a New Class of Cosmic Explosions
  • Astronomers Obtain Highly Detailed Image of the "Red Square" By Using Adaptive Optics of Palomar and Keck Telescopes
  • Palomar Observatory Participates in live remote broadcasts via the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network
  • Space Foundation honors the California Institute of Technology with Jack Swigert Award for Space Exploration
  • New Window of Universe Opens at Griffith; Unprecedented Image from Palomar
  • The Dwarf Planet Formerly Known as Xena Has Officially Been Named Eris, IAU Announces
  • Jupiter-Sized Transiting Planet Found by Astronomers Using Novel Telescope Network.   More on TrES-2
    
  • Caltech astronomer Richard Ellis featured in Time Magazine's Let There Be Light
  • Xena Awarded "Dwarf Planet" Status, IAU Rules; Solar System Now Has Eight "Classical" Planets see also IAU Resolution on the definition of a planet
  • NSF-Funded Wireless Network Leads Palomar Observatory Astronomers to Major Discoveries and UCSD’s Supercomputer Center Helps Palomar Share Its Cosmic Discoveries and Wireless Network Helps Unlock Secrets of the Universe from Space.com
  • Movie and images of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 from the Hale Telescope
    Palomar Observes Broken Comet  
  • Caltech/Palomar astronomer Mike Brown named by Time Magazine as one of their Time 100: People Who Shape Our World
  • The Palomar Observatory was featured in the Winter 2006 issue of Subaru Drive Magazine
  • Changing the Guard: Ellis Gives Kulkarni Key to the Observatory
  • Large survey of galaxies yields new findings on star formation
  • Most Distant Explosion in Universe Detected   

  • Planetary Scientists Discover Tenth Planet  
    Work Continues on the Solar System's Three Recently Discovered Objects
         More information on the 2003 UB313 and the Samuel Oschin Telescope

  • Deep Impact comet photographed by the 200-inch Hale Telescope   

  • Thousands flock to Palomar for Observatory Open House

  • Time-lapse movie of aluminizing the 200-inch mirror filmed June, 2005 (~150 mb)

  • Laser Points to the Future at Palomar       
    

  • Holographic Filter Allows Astronomers to Read between the Lines   

  • Hunting Gamma-Ray Bursts at Palomar Observatory

    Astronomers Measure Distance to Well-Known Star

  • The Palomar-QUEST survey