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$4 Million Laser Marks Ground Zero for Adaptive Optics Science
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – Hawaii’s W. M. Keck Observatory has successfully deployed a $4 million laser system that provides a marked increase in the resolution and clarity of what are already […]
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Hawaii Discovers: The World’s Leading Observatory Was Born in Hawaii 25 Years Ago
By Steve Jefferson Twenty-five years ago in 1990, the average US house cost $123,000, the Dow Jones averaged 2633 and gasoline cost a little more than a dollar-thirty a gallon. […]
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“First Light” Marks 25 Years of Hawaii’s Leadership in Astronomy
By Sean Adkins Every night, all over the world, people look up at the sky and wonder about the distant stars. Here in Hawaii we have the privilege of looking […]
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Prodigious ‘Brightest Cluster Galaxy’ Discovered Churning Trillions of Stars
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant massive galaxy cluster with a core bursting with new stars. The discovery, made with the help of the […]
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Hot Jupiter-esque Discovery Hints at Planet Formation
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – A team of astronomers discovered a Jupiter-like planet within a young system that could serve as a decoder ring for understanding how planets formed around our sun. The […]
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The Future of Maunakea Rests in the Hands of Hawaii’s People
By Doug Simons and Hilton Lewis The international astronomical community has converged in Honolulu. The timing—in the midst of the controversy surrounding the construction of TMT on Maunakea—has motivated some […]
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New Record: Keck Observatory Measures Most Distant Galaxy
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – A team of astrophysicists using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has successfully measured the farthest galaxy ever recorded and more interestingly, captured its hydrogen emission as […]
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Keck Observatory Astronomer Wins Major Prize
UCLA professor and longtime W. M. Keck Observatory astronomer, Andrea Ghez will be awarded the 2015 Bakerian Medal, the Royal Society’s premiere prize lecture in the physical sciences, the organization […]
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Keck Observatory Names Chief Scientist
KAMUELA, Hawaii – W. M. Keck Observatory is very pleased to announce Anne Kinney has been appointed Chief Scientist, effective August 3, 2015. “We are delighted to welcome Anne as […]
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Telescopes Team Up to Find Distant Uranus-Sized Planet Through Microlensing
Maunakea, Hawaii – The W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star. The planet was discovered […]