Category: News
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Watery Asteroid Discovered in Dying Star Points to Habitable Exoplanets
Kamuela, HI — Astronomers have found the shattered remains of an asteroid that contained huge amounts of water orbiting an exhausted star, or white dwarf. This suggests that the star GD […]
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Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid
Kamuela, HI — Combining observations from the world’s largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main-belt asteroid (87) Sylvia has a complex interior, thanks […]
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Astronomers Observe Distant Galaxy Powered by Primordial Cosmic Fuel
Kamuela, HI — Astronomers have detected cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang, fueling a distant star-forming galaxy in the early Universe. Profuse flows […]
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Evidence For Densest Galaxy In Nearby Universe
Kamuela, Hawaii — The densest galaxy in the nearby Universe may have been found. Packed with an extraordinary number of stars, this unusual galaxy is providing astronomers with clues to […]
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Working Retreat Rewards All
What did a Waimea Middle School chicken say to the Black Hole? The black hole will never know – sound can’t travel in space. But last week, the two […]
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New Class of Star Cluster Discovered
Kamuela, Hawaii – Star clusters with properties not seen before have been discovered by an international team of astrophysicists, led by Swinburne University of Technology’s Professor Duncan Forbes. Using data […]
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Keck Observatory’s Adaptive Optics featured on NPR
Jun. 24, 2013 by Joe Palca — For Sharpest Views, Scope The Sky With Quick-Change Mirrors “It used to be that if astronomers wanted to get rid of the blurring effects […]
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Scientists Discover System with Three Planets in Habitable Zone
Kamuela, HI — A team of scientists recently confirmed six, and possibly seven, planets orbiting a star system a mere 22 light-years from Earth. More importantly, three of those planets […]
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UCI Scientists Size Up Universe’s Most Lightweight Dwarf Galaxy with Keck Observatory
Kamuela, Hawaii — The least massive galaxy in the known universe has been measured by UC Irvine scientists, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of […]
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International Team on Keck Observatory Strengthens Big Bang Theory
Kamuela, Hawaii – An international team of scientists using the most powerful telescope on Earth has discovered the moments just after the Big Bang happened more like the theory predicts, […]