Category: News
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Video: How Stars Destroyed Almost All the Atoms in the Universe
On Thursday, May 10, 2012, Keck Observatory hosted a live webcast of an astronomy talk by Dr. Brian Siana of the University of California at Riverside. Below is the recording […]
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Live Webcast: How Stars Destroyed Most of the Atoms in the Universe
On Thursday, May 10, 2012, Keck Observatory is hosting a live webcast of an astronomy talk by Dr. Brian Siana of the University of California at Riverside. The first galaxies […]
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Dim Gets Ridiculously Dimmer
Geese come in gaggles, bass in shoals and a crowd of crows is called a murder. Likewise, there are names for groups of stars. They come in constellations, globular clusters, […]
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‘Ridiculously’ Dim Bevy of Stars Found Beyond Milky Way
Kamuela, HI ? A team of American, Canadian and Chilean astronomers have stumbled onto a remarkably faint cluster of stars orbiting the Milky Way that puts out as much light […]
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Video: Imaging the Cosmic Web
Dr. Chris Martin of Caltech explains the ongoing mission to directly observe the vast filaments of gas that connect clusters of galaxies, feed galaxies and create a vast web of […]
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Galaxies Juggling, Galaxies Square, Galaxies, Galaxies Everywhere
Sometimes the universe seems like something from Dr. Seuss. In recent weeks astronomers have demonstrated this by announcing the discovery of juggling galaxies as well as a square, emerald-cut, gem […]
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Video: The Magnificent Night Sky — How to Protect It
The advent and spread of electrical lighting has made it ever harder to find the dark skies valued by professional and amateur astronomers, not to mention lovers of starry skies […]
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First Light of Powerful New MOSFIRE Instrument
Kamuela, HI ? Engineers and astronomers are celebrating the much anticipated first light of the MOSFIRE instrument, now installed on the Keck I telescope at W. M. Keck Observatory. MOSFIRE […]
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Recycling galaxies caught in the act
Kamuela, HI—When astronomers add up all the gas and dust contained in ordinary galaxies like our own Milky Way, they stumble on a puzzle: There is not nearly enough matter […]
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Video: The Accelerating Universe
Nobel Laureate astronomer Brian Schmidt presents the story of the discovery of dark energy to an audience of enthusiastic Keck Observatory donors at the Fairmont Orchid, Big Island of Hawai’i, […]