Category: News
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FOUND: One Planet Orbiting Sun-like Star. Only Twelve Light Years Away. May Be Habitable.
An international team of astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory and other telescopes, has discovered that Tau Ceti, one of the closest and most Sun-like stars, may host five […]
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Astronomers Go Infrared to Map Brightest Galaxies in Universe
Kamuela, Hawaii – A group of astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the U.S. Mainland, Canada, and Europe recently used the twin telescopes of the W. M. Keck […]
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Keck Week 2013 Commemorates W.M. Keck Observatory’s 20th Anniversary
Kamuela, Hawaii– This Spring, the W. M. Keck Observatory is throwing a weeklong party called Keck Week 2013, to celebrate the observatory’s first twenty years of high-impact, game-changing astronomical discoveries […]
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Lowell Astronomer Prints Roadmap for Planet Hunters
Kamuela, Hawaii – Lowell astronomer Evgenya Shkolnik and her collaborators have published a set of directions for searching out exoplanets, using W. M. Keck Observatory spectroscopy. Their paper, recently published […]
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VIDEO Astronomy Talk: Violent Events in Rocky Planetary Systems
This is a recoding of a Keck Observatory Astronomy Talk given by Dr. Benjamin Zuckerman, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at UCLA. His talk, ‘Violent Events in Rocky Planetary Systems: Implications […]
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Swinburne Team on Keck Discovers Farthest Supernova Ever
Kamuela, Hawaii – Two ‘super-luminous’ supernovae — stellar explosions 10–100 times brighter than other supernova types — have been detected in the distant Universe, using the W.M. Keck Observatory on […]
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VIDEO Astronomy Talk: Stars Born in Extreme Environments
This is a recoding of a Keck Observatory Astronomy Talk given by Dr. Jessica Lu, NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii (IfA). Her talk, […]
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Keck captures most detailed images of Uranus ever obtained from Earth
These two images of Uranus are composites of 117 images from 25 July 2012 (left) and 118 images from 26 July 2012 (right), all obtained with the near-infrared NIRC2 camera […]
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Astronomers at Keck Upend Galaxy Evolution Theory
Kamuela, Hawaii — A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that […]
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Keck confirms: Armchair astronomers find planet in four-star system
Kamuela, Hawaii — A joint effort of citizen scientists and professional astronomers at W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has led to the first reported case of a Tatooine-like planet orbiting […]