Category: News
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Astronomers Find Possible Elusive Star Behind Supernova
Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers may have finally uncovered the long-sought progenitor to a specific type of exploding star by sifting through NASA Hubble Space Telescope archival data and conducting follow-up […]
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Super-Earth Discovered Orbiting the Sun’s Famous Stellar Neighbor
PLANET ORBITS BARNARD’S STAR, THE CLOSEST SINGLE STAR TO THE SUN Maunakea, Hawaii – At only six light-years away, Barnard’s star has fascinated exoplanet hunters since the 1960’s, largely due […]
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Yale University Astronomer Pieter van Dokkum Shares Ghost Stories of Eerie New Type of Galaxy
WAIMEA (KAMUELA), HAWAII – Mysteries surrounding ghostly galaxies manifested before a theater full of curious minds on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at a W. M. Keck Observatory Astronomy Talk, featuring […]
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Astronomers Get Best View Yet of Supermassive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies, Slowly Moving on a Collision Course with Each Other
Maunakea, Hawaii – Two galaxies, drawn together by the force of gravity, are merging into a tangled mass of dense gas and dust. Structure is giving way to chaos, but […]
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New Insight Into Why Galaxies Stop Forming Stars
A team of scientists get best measure yet of why star formation stopped in galaxy clusters in the early universe Maunakea, Hawaii – Galaxy clusters are rare regions of the […]
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Astronomers Find a Cosmic Titan in the Early Universe
Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers at University of Califronia, Davis, are using W. M. Keck Observatory to map out an ancient, titanic structure in the early universe. […]
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Researchers Solve Mystery at the Center of the Milky Way
Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the center of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last […]
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Dying Star Emits a Whisper
The Death of a Massive Star and the Birth of a Compact Neutron Star Binary Maunakea, Hawaii – A Caltech-led team of researchers, with the help of W. M. Keck Observatory […]
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W. M. Keck Observatory Awarded NSF Grant to Develop Next-Generation Adaptive Optics System
Maunakea, Hawaii – Nearly two decades after pioneering the technology on large telescopes, W. M. Keck Observatory is once again pushing the boundaries in the field of adaptive optics (AO) […]
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W. M. Keck Observatory Names New Chief Scientist
Waimea (Kamuela), Hawaii – W. M. Keck Observatory is very pleased to announce John O’Meara’s appointment as Chief Scientist, effective December 3, 2018. “We are very pleased to welcome John […]