Category: News
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How I Killed Pluto & Why It Had It Coming: The Video
This is a video recording of the Sept. 15, 2011, lecture by Caltech astronomer Mike Brown. This public lecture was held at Kahilu Theatre in Waimea, on the Big Island […]
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Citizen Scientists, Kepler and Keck Uncover New Planets
Astronomers at Yale University have announced the discovery of the first two potential exoplanets found by the online citizen scientist Planet Hunters program. Users of the Planet Hunters program analyze […]
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Uncovering the Secrets of the Great Supernova
Kamuela, HI – A once-in-a-lifetime nearby stellar explosion now unfolding in a neighboring galaxy has astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory scrambling to ask questions that can’t be answered […]
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Bizarre Diamond Planet Found
Astronomers believe they’ve found a small planet made of diamond, orbiting an unusual star. The discovery was made using using ‘The Dish’ — CSIRO’s radio telescope near Parkes, New South […]
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Ice & Maybe Methane on ‘Snow White’ Dwarf Planet
Ancient slush-spewing volcanoes slopped water ice across half the surface of the so-called “Snow White” world, say astronomers studying the distant dwarf planet 2007 OR10. Although it will take the […]
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Interns Find Opportunities at Keck Observatory
Young people these days. They go through high school and college, trying to find their way in the world with gloom, doom and debt all around them. The path to […]
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Found: Heart of Darkness
Kamuela, HI – Astronomers using the 10-meter Keck II telescope in Hawaii have confirmed in a new paper that a troupe of about 1,000 small, dim stars just outside the […]
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Hawaii’s Coldest, Steepest Job
Imagine scanning the Help Wanted ads and finding this: ?MEN WANTED for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and […]
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Black Hole Eats Star, Belches Gamma Rays
Berkeley — A bright flash of gamma rays discovered on March 28 by the Swift satellite and studied in other wavelengths by Keck, Gemini North and other telescopes, may have […]
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Light Sabers on Mauna Kea
What is old is new again. First the old: The iconic sci-fi image of port and starboard phasers firing on a hostile foe, as seen from the bridge of the […]