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Goldstein to showcase art at Keck Observatory
Laurie Goldstein, an artist in North Kohala, created her first work of art at age five. With a cardboard tracing of her foot, some ribbon and blue and gold paint, […]
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Discovery Channel features Keck Observatory
The Keck II telescope’s Laser Guide Star fires into the night sky. Credit: Sarah Anderson. Black Holes, the most powerful destroyers in the Universe, the most mysterious phenomena in the […]
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New Children’s Book Explores the Hunt for Other Worlds
Vicki Oransky Wittenstein, author of Planet Hunter, stands in front of the Keck telescope. Credit: Sarah Anderson. Planet Hunter: Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths, published in 2010 […]
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Cosmic photo Album Earns Astronomer AAS Prize
A native of Italy, Tommaso Treu, now a UC Santa Barbara astrophysicist, earned degrees at University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore and was a graduate student at the […]
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Keck Observatory Featured in NOVA Documentary
PBS Hawai’i aired Hunting the Edge of Space, a documentary exploring how the telescope has expanded our view of the Universe. The program features planet hunter Geoff Marcy and his […]
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Exploring New Worlds
UC Berkeley planet hunter Geoff Marcy watches the sun set from the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea. Credit: WMKO. Geoff Marcy, an astronomer at UC Berkeley, began searching for worlds […]
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Astronomers See Historical Supernova From New Angle
MAUNA KEA, HI— By observing visible “light echoes,” astronomers have assembled one of the first 3-D perspectives of a cosmic object. The new view of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A […]
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Keck Telescope Confirms Smallest Known Star Duo
Mauna Kea, HI — Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have identified the smallest known binary system to date. The system, called HM Cancri, consists of two dead stars […]
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Second Smallest Exoplanet Found to Date Discovered at Keck
WASHINGTON D.C.— Planet hunters using Keck Observatory have detected an extrasolar planet that is only four times the mass of Earth. The planet is the second smallest exoplanet ever discovered […]
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Waltzing Black Holes Take Center Stage at Astronomy Meeting
WASHINGTON D.C.—Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered 33 pairs of black holes in distant galaxies. The new results verify that these waltzing black holes are more common […]