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Keck’s Twin Telescopes Fire Dual “Phasers”
The plucky few who work near the chilly summit of Mauna Kea were witnesses this week to a sight straight out of sci-fi movies: The first dual laser launches by […]
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Keck & NASA Telescopes Reveal Surprisingly Young Galaxy
WASHINGTON—Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.5 billion years ago, a mere 200 million years after the big bang. The […]
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Super Luminous Stars, Deep Dark Skies & Super Moons
The Keck I Telescope has played a key role in unraveling the mysteries of one of the brightest supernovas ever discovered. Supernova 2008am is 3.7 billion light-years away from Earth. […]
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Keck Telescope Images Super-Luminous Supernova
Austin, Texas – The Keck I Telescope has played a key role in unraveling the mysteries of one of the brightest supernovas ever discovered. The supernova, called Supernova 2008am, is […]
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New Candidate For Coldest ‘Star’
Kamuela, HI – There is a new candidate for coldest known star: a brown dwarf with about the same temperature as a hot cup of coffee. That’s cool enough to […]
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Europa Helps Astronomers Penetrate Jupiter’s Lost Belt
Kamuela, HI – The ongoing turmoil inside Jupiter’s missing – and slowly re-emerging – South Equatorial Belt can now be seen in unprecedented detail thanks to the Keck II telescope’s […]
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Royal Honor Awarded to Astronomer Richard Ellis
Pasadena, CA – Richard Salisbury Ellis, the Steele Family Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, has received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Awarded annually since 1824, the Gold […]
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Astronomers Discover New Clues to Galaxy Evolution
Seattle, WA – Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and University of Hawai’i (UH) have discovered 16 close-knit pairs of supermassive black […]
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NASA Study Distinguishes Most Distant Galaxy Cluster
Kamuela, HI – Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster […]
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Weight-Watchers Guide to the Universe: Obese Galaxies Aren’t Dieting
Humans are not alone in their struggle against an increasing waistline. Astronomers believe that galaxies too put on weight throughout their lives, growing not only by consuming hydrogen gas—which is […]