Category: News
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Director’s Message: Kilauea Volcano Eruptions
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR As you know, Hawaii Island is experiencing volcanic activity in the Puna district with multiple eruptions and hundreds of earthquakes over the past few days. On […]
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Keck Observatory Exoplanet Imaginarium
WHERE IMAGINATION & SCIENCE MEET W. M. Keck Observatory is bringing alien worlds to life, embarking on a deep space virtual “journey” to exoplanets that have either been discovered or […]
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Dark Matter is a No Show in Ghostly Galaxy
Maunakea, Hawaii – Galaxies and dark matter go hand in hand; you typically don’t find one without the other. So when researchers uncovered a galaxy, known as NGC1052-DF2, that is […]
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Clintons Visit Maunakea
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to the summit of Maunakea in early January 2018 and learned about the cultural, natural […]
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Stars Around the Milky Way: Cosmic Space Invaders or Victims of Galactic Eviction?
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located […]
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Amateur Astronomer Captures Rare First Light of Massive Exploding Star
Maunakea, Hawaii – Thanks to lucky snapshots taken by an amateur astronomer in Argentina, scientists have obtained their first view of the initial burst of light from the explosion of […]
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Astronomers Discover S0-2 Star is Single and Ready for Big Einstein Test
No companion found for famous young bright star orbiting Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Maunakea, Hawaii– Astronomers have the “all-clear” for an exciting test of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, […]
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Planets around Other Stars are like Peas in a Pod
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international research team led by Université de Montréal astrophysicist Lauren Weiss has discovered that exoplanets orbiting the same star tend to have similar sizes and a […]
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Nobel Physics Prize Laureate Kip Thorne Talks Interstellar at W. M. Keck Observatory Astronomy Talk
WAIMEA (KAMUELA), Hawai`i – Dr. Kip Thorne, world-renowned theoretical astrophysicist, 2017 Nobel Physics Prize Laureate, and executive producer of the blockbuster film Interstellar brought his revolutionary work to Hawai`i for […]
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W. M. Keck Observatory Achieves First Light with NIRES
Near-Infrared Echellette Spectrometer Designed to Find the Faintest, Most Violent Objects in the Universe Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory have successfully met a major milestone after […]