Zwicky Transient Facility Leads to Classification of 10,000 Supernovae
December 04, 2024
December 04, 2024
PASADENA, California, Dec. 4 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
In the 1930s, Caltech astronomer Fritz Zwicky would brave the chill atop Palomar Mountain near San Diego to peer through a small survey telescope in search of eruptions in the night sky. In the 1940s, he and his collaborator, astronomer Walter Baade, continued the quest using a larger survey telescope, the 48-inch Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory, still in operation today. . . .
In the 1930s, Caltech astronomer Fritz Zwicky would brave the chill atop Palomar Mountain near San Diego to peer through a small survey telescope in search of eruptions in the night sky. In the 1940s, he and his collaborator, astronomer Walter Baade, continued the quest using a larger survey telescope, the 48-inch Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory, still in operation today. . . .