Category: News
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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 […]
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Keck Observatory Astronomer Wins Major Prize
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 […]
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Keck Observatory Names Chief Scientist
KAMUELA, Hawaii – W. M. Keck Observatory is very pleased to announce Anne Kinney has been appointed Chief Scientist, effective August 3, 2015. “We are delighted to welcome Anne as […]
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Telescopes Team Up to Find Distant Uranus-Sized Planet Through Microlensing
Maunakea, Hawaii – The W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star. The planet was discovered […]
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Fossil Star Clusters Reveal Their Age
Maunakea, Hawaii – Using a new age-dating method and the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, an international team of astronomers have determined that ancient star clusters formed in two distinct […]
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Found: Earth’s Closest Cousin Yet
Maunakea, Hawaii – The W. M. Keck Observatory has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new […]