Category: News
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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 […]
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Pluto from Hawaii
Maunakea, Hawaii –The past two weeks have been 14 monumental days for beings on Earth interested in Pluto and its five moons. While many people think it’s pretty cool to […]
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W. M. Keck Observatory Launches App KeckWatch
Kamuela, Hawaii – Today, W. M. Keck Observatory launched a new smartphone app to stoke the curiosity and wonder of astronomy. KeckWatch was built by First Light Design – the […]
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Gigantic, Early Black Hole Could Upend Evolutionary Theory
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astrophysicists led by Benny Trakhtenbrot, a researcher at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Astronomy, discovered a gigantic black hole in an otherwise normal galaxy, […]
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Scientists Discover Brightest Early Galaxy and Likely First Generation Stars
Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers using several of the largest telescopes on Earth and space have discovered the brightest galaxy yet found in the early Universe and have strong evidence that examples […]
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Astronomers Baffled by Discovery of Rare Quasar Quartet
Maunakea, Hawaii – Using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, a group of astronomers led by Joseph Hennawi of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered the first quadruple […]