Category: News
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Total Lunar Eclipse
Waimea, Hawaii—Hawaii Fans of Keck Observatory are in prime position to view a total lunar eclipse tonight—one of two expected this year. After the full moon rises at sunset, the […]
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Aussie Scientist Finds Rare Supernova at Keck Observatory
By Prof. Duncan Forbes It was a dark and stormy night in the city of Angels. Well, actually it wasn’t. But more on that later… It was a clear night […]
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Hilton A. Lewis Named Interim Keck Observatory Director
Kamuela, Hawaii – The Board of Directors of the W. M. Keck Observatory has named Hilton A. Lewis Interim Director of the observatory, which operates the two Keck telescopes on […]
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Distant Asteroid Revealed to be a Complex Mini Geological World
Mauna Kea, HI—After 8 years of observations scientists from the SETI Institute have found an exotic orbit for the largest Trojan asteroid, (624) Hektor—the only one known to possess a […]
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Water Vapor Detected in the Atmosphere of a Hot Jupiter
Mauna Kea, HI—California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers using data gathered at the W. M. Keck Observatory have developed a new technique for planetary scientists that could provide insight into […]
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Dr. Arthur M. Wolfe (1939-2014)
Arthur M. Wolfe, an American astrophysicist who for a decade directed the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego and achieved widespread recognition for […]
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Serendipitous Supernova
By Steve Jefferson Two weeks ago a group of astronomy students from the University of London Observatory were getting an introductory demonstration on how to use a telescope-mounted camera. With […]
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Rare Brown Dwarf Discovery Provides Benchmark for Future Exoplanet Research
MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp, the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has directly imaged a very rare type […]
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UCSC Scientists Capture First Cosmic Web Filaments at Keck Observatory
MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect […]
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Keck Observatory Director Taft Armandroff to Step Down
Kamuela, HI – The Board of Directors of the W. M. Keck Observatory announced today that Taft Armandroff, executive director of the world’s premier ground-based astronomical observatory, will step down […]