Category: News
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Solved! 40 Year-old Mystery on the Size of Shadowy Galaxies
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – Using the world’s largest telescopes, researchers discovered ancient cold gas clouds larger than galaxies in the early Universe. The discovery was announced today at a press conference at […]
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Maunakea Observatories Put New Spin on Galaxy Formation
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – A team of Australian researchers used two Maunakea-based observatories – Gemini North and W. M. Keck Observatory – to discover why some galaxies are clumpy rather than spiral […]
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NASA Honors Keck Observatory for Opening its Archive to the Public
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – The W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has just been awarded the 2015 NASA Group Achievement Award for pioneering the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) ten years ago, […]
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$4 Million Laser Marks Ground Zero for Adaptive Optics Science
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – Hawaii’s W. M. Keck Observatory has successfully deployed a $4 million laser system that provides a marked increase in the resolution and clarity of what are already […]
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Hawaii Discovers: The World’s Leading Observatory Was Born in Hawaii 25 Years Ago
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. […]
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“First Light” Marks 25 Years of Hawaii’s Leadership in Astronomy
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 […]
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Prodigious ‘Brightest Cluster Galaxy’ Discovered Churning Trillions of Stars
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant massive galaxy cluster with a core bursting with new stars. The discovery, made with the help of the […]
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Hot Jupiter-esque Discovery Hints at Planet Formation
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – A team of astronomers discovered a Jupiter-like planet within a young system that could serve as a decoder ring for understanding how planets formed around our sun. The […]
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The Future of Maunakea Rests in the Hands of Hawaii’s People
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 […]
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New Record: Keck Observatory Measures Most Distant Galaxy
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – A team of astrophysicists using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has successfully measured the farthest galaxy ever recorded and more interestingly, captured its hydrogen emission as […]