Category: Cosmic Matters

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kamuela, Hawaii – Today, W. M. Keck Observatory launched a new smartphone app to stoke the curiosity and wonder of astronomy. KeckWatch was built by First Light Design – the […]

Maunakea, Hawaii –The past two weeks have been 14 monumental days for beings on Earth interested in Pluto and its five moons. While many people think it’s pretty cool to […]

MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – UC Santa Cruz astronomers who used the W. M. Keck Observatory to capture the first image of a filament of the “cosmic web” have been recognized by the […]

By Logan Kugler WAIMEA, HI — How would you like to take a stroll to Venus? Has your family always wanted to visit Saturn? You’ll get your chance on Saturday, November 8th […]

By Logan Kugler  Do you know where you live? You probably know your street address and the name of your town, state, and country. But what about your cosmic address […]