http://keckobservatory.org/news en sjefferson@keck.hawaii.edu Copyright 2013 2013-04-09T17:43:50+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/astronomers_using_keck_observatory_discover_rain_falling_from_saturns_rings http://keckobservatory.org/news/astronomers_using_keck_observatory_discover_rain_falling_from_saturns_rings#When:17:43:50Z Kamuela, HI—NASA funded observations on the W. M. Keck Observatory with analysis led by the University of Leicester, England tracked the “rain” of charged water particles into the atmosphere of 2013-04-09T17:43:50+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/nasa_and_caltech_astronomers_find_potential_energy_supply_for_life_on_europ http://keckobservatory.org/news/nasa_and_caltech_astronomers_find_potential_energy_supply_for_life_on_europ#When:02:36:26Z KAMUELA, HI – Observations of Europa from the W. M. Keck Observatory help NASA and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers go one step further in demonstrating life may be possible 2013-04-05T02:36:26+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/astronomers_detect_water_in_atmosphere_of_distant_planet http://keckobservatory.org/news/astronomers_detect_water_in_atmosphere_of_distant_planet#When:17:30:18Z KAMUELA, HI – A team of international scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size planet beyond our Solar System. 2013-03-14T17:30:18+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/keck_observatory_helps_open_window_into_europas_ocean http://keckobservatory.org/news/keck_observatory_helps_open_window_into_europas_ocean#When:19:08:12Z KAMUELA, Hawaii—With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a 2013-03-05T19:08:12+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/w._m._keck_observatory_completes_4_million_adaptive_optics_fund_for_keck_ii http://keckobservatory.org/news/w._m._keck_observatory_completes_4_million_adaptive_optics_fund_for_keck_ii#When:19:07:46Z Kamuela, Hawaii – The W. M. Keck Observatory has successfully completed a $4 million campaign that will give astronomers the most detailed Adaptive Optics images of the cosmos ever created by 2013-03-05T19:07:46+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/video_astronomy_talk_black_holes_and_the_fate_of_the_universe http://keckobservatory.org/news/video_astronomy_talk_black_holes_and_the_fate_of_the_universe#When:02:15:03Z This is a recoding of a Keck Observatory Astronomy Talk given by Dr. Günther Hasinger, Astronomer and Director of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. His talk, ‘Black Holes ad the Fate 2013-01-11T02:15:03+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/surprise_earth_sized_planets_are_common http://keckobservatory.org/news/surprise_earth_sized_planets_are_common#When:01:26:06Z Kamuela, Hawaii – A team of astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Hawaii at Manoa has found that 17 percent of all sun-like stars have planets one to two 2013-01-10T01:26:06+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/surprise_pancake_structure_in_andromeda_galaxy_upends_galactic_understandin http://keckobservatory.org/news/surprise_pancake_structure_in_andromeda_galaxy_upends_galactic_understandin#When:23:34:14Z Kamuela, Hawaii – Astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii and W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii have been amazed to find a group of dwarf galaxies moving in 2013-01-02T23:34:14+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/found_one_planet_orbiting_sun_like_star_only_twelve_light_years_away_may_be http://keckobservatory.org/news/found_one_planet_orbiting_sun_like_star_only_twelve_light_years_away_may_be#When:23:39:46Z An international team of astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory and other telescopes, has discovered that Tau Ceti, one of the closest and most Sun-like stars, may host five planets – with 2012-12-18T23:39:46+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/keck_week_2013_commemorates_w.m._keck_observatorys_20th_anniversary http://keckobservatory.org/news/keck_week_2013_commemorates_w.m._keck_observatorys_20th_anniversary#When:18:46:33Z Kamuela, Hawaii– This Spring, the W. M. Keck Observatory is throwing a weeklong party called Keck Week 2013, to celebrate the observatory’s first twenty years of high-impact, game-changing 2012-12-11T18:46:33+00:00