Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

The Zwicky Transient Facility has reached an incredible milestone, classifying over 10,000 supernovas, cosmic explosions that ...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about ...

Discovery and history. On March 2, 2022 astronomers Frank Masci and Bryce Bolin using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at the Palomar Observatory in Southern California, came across an object ...

The comet had been traveling towards us from the outer reaches of the solar system, and was first sighted by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at the Palomar Observatory, near San Diego in ...

The advent of large-scale surveys like ZTF has resulted in an unprecedented amount of astronomical data. When the soon-to-be ...

T here was no Palomar Observatory when the object now known as comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) made its last close approach to Earth 50,000 years ago. There were mastodons and woolly mammoths, and great ...

The Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, which discovered C/2022 E3 (ZTF), uses a powerful camera to scan and record the northern sky every two days.

A recently discovered comet will soon make its appearance in January’s night sky for the first time in 50,000 years. The comet will make its closest approach to the sun on January 12.

For the survey, ZTF uses a camera to snap pictures almost every 30 seconds through the Palomar Observatory’s forty-eight-inch telescope. Machine-learning algorithms are used to detect moving ...

The ZTF doesn't just hunt supernovas for other facilities to identify, however. Using two spectrographs at Palomar Observatory, the ZTF project can also classify its own supernovas and supernovas ...