Press Releases

2008

Witnessing the Formation of Distant Galaxies - 2008-04-04 [UKIRT]

Old Galaxies Stick Together in the Young Universe - 2008-04-01 [UKIRT]

Heat from the Heavens - Opening up the Infrared Sky - 2008-01-09 [UKIRT]

2007

UKIRT's Wide Field Camera Takes One-Millionth Observation - 2007-11-09 [UKIRT]

Discovery Narrows the Gap Between Planets and Brown Dwarfs - 2007-05-30 [UKIRT]

Slicing the Universe with HARP/ACSIS - A New Look at Orion - 2007-05-17 [JCMT]

2006

James Clerk Maxwell Birthday - Namesake of Mauna Kea Telescope - 2006-06-13 [JCMT]

2004

World's Most Powerful Infrared Camera Opens its Eyes on the Heavens - 2004-12-22 [UKIRT]

Spitzer Space Telescope Pinpoints SCUBA's Elusive but Violent Star Bursts - 2004-07-19 [JCMT]

The Going gets Tough for Life in Other Solar Systems - 2004-07-06 [JCMT]

Key to Martian Atmosphere Found - 2004-03-01 [JCMT]

2003

A Giant Cocoon of Molecular Hydrogen Discovered Around a Massive Young Star - 2003-12-08 [UKIRT]

New Evidence for Solar-like Planetary System Around Nearby Star - 2003-12-01 [JCMT]

Intelligent Agents and Robotic Telescopes to Help Astronomers Keep up with the Universe - 2003-10-14 [UKIRT]

Astronomers to Coldly Go Where No-one Has Gone Before - 2003-09-26 [JCMT]

Distant Star Bursts Provide Key to the Origin of Galaxies - 2003-09-17 [JCMT]

Astronomers Hunt Martian Water from Earth - 2003-08-26 [UKIRT]

Smoking Supernovae Solve a Ten Billion Year-old Mystery - 2003-07-16 [JCMT]

Galaxies of Stars Shrouded in Dust Found in the Early Universe - 2003-03-31 [JCMT]

Weighing a Black Hole at the Edge of the Universe - 2003-03-20 [UKIRT]

2002

Elusive Young Stars Can't Hide from Multi-talented Michelle - 2002-12-20 [UKIRT]

Astronomers Discover the Wake of a Planet Around a Nearby Star - 2002-10-10 [JCMT]

Astronomers Slice and Dice Galaxies - 2002-10-04 [UKIRT]

2001

Old Brown Dwarf-like Stars Discovered - 2001-02-08 [UKIRT]

2000

Mapping the Milky Way - 2000-12-19 [JCMT]

Brown Dwarf 'Missing Link' Discovered - 2000-05-09 [UKIRT]

Giant Magnetic Bubble Discovered in Nearby Galaxy - 2000-04-13 [JCMT]

Astronomers Discover Free-Floating Planets in the Orion Nebula - 2000-03-22 [UKIRT]

Astronomers Find Clue to Riddle of Spinning Star Formation - 2000-01-25 [UKIRT]

1998

The Hidden Universe Revealed - 1998-07-15 [JCMT]

Astronomers Discover a Nearby Star System just like our own Solar System - 1998-07-08 [JCMT]

Astronomers Discover a Distant Galaxy Hidden in Dust - 1998-04-28 [JCMT]

Astronomers Discover Possible New Solar Systems in Formation around the Nearby Stars Vega and Fomalhaut - 1998-04-21 [JCMT]