Category: News
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Four Synchronized Planets Reveal Clues to How Planets Form
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – The search for planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy has revealed an extraordinary family of planets whose orbits are so carefully timed that they provide long-term stability […]
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Even in Deep Space, There Are Shades of Black
BY FARISA Y. MORALES for Zocalo Public Square In my line of work, I stare at shades of black. My work starts on dark, black nights, when there is no moon […]
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New Hypervelocity Binary Star Challenges Dark Matter, Stellar Acceleration Models
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A team of astronomers at the Friedrich Alexander University led by Péter Németh has discovered a binary star moving nearly at the escape velocity of our galaxy. […]
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UCR Student Traces Star Formation Rates in Distant Galaxies
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A group of researchers, led by a University of California, Riverside graduate student, observed distant galaxies with the MOSFIRE high-resolution near-infrared spectrometer at W. M. Keck Observatory […]
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New Calibration Tool Will Help Astronomers Look for Habitable Exoplanets
by Adam Hadhazy PASADENA, Calif. — Promising new calibration tools, called laser frequency combs, could allow astronomers to take a major step in discovering and characterizing earthlike planets around other stars. […]
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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. […]