Category: News
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Nature’s Best Magnifying Glass Views Early Spiral Galaxy
Kamuela, HI – Astronomers in Hawaii have plucked unprecedented details from the life of an early galaxy using an unusually lucid gravitational lens coupled with the powerful 10-meter Keck II […]
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Children’s Astro Haiku Contest Winners
Kamuela, HI – The W. M. Keck Observatory’s mission is to advance the frontiers of astronomy and share our discoveries with the world. Today that mission extends to sharing the […]
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“I Am Oz, The Great and Powerful…”
When the Wizard of Oz roared that line, he was hidden behind a curtain. He knew all too well that he was not particularly great nor very powerful, and wanted […]
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Keck’s Twin Telescopes Fire Dual “Phasers”
The plucky few who work near the chilly summit of Mauna Kea were witnesses this week to a sight straight out of sci-fi movies: The first dual laser launches by […]
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Keck & NASA Telescopes Reveal Surprisingly Young Galaxy
WASHINGTON—Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.5 billion years ago, a mere 200 million years after the big bang. The […]
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Super Luminous Stars, Deep Dark Skies & Super Moons
The Keck I Telescope has played a key role in unraveling the mysteries of one of the brightest supernovas ever discovered. Supernova 2008am is 3.7 billion light-years away from Earth. […]
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Keck Telescope Images Super-Luminous Supernova
Austin, Texas – The Keck I Telescope has played a key role in unraveling the mysteries of one of the brightest supernovas ever discovered. The supernova, called Supernova 2008am, is […]
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New Candidate For Coldest ‘Star’
Kamuela, HI – There is a new candidate for coldest known star: a brown dwarf with about the same temperature as a hot cup of coffee. That’s cool enough to […]
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Europa Helps Astronomers Penetrate Jupiter’s Lost Belt
Kamuela, HI – The ongoing turmoil inside Jupiter’s missing – and slowly re-emerging – South Equatorial Belt can now be seen in unprecedented detail thanks to the Keck II telescope’s […]
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Royal Honor Awarded to Astronomer Richard Ellis
Pasadena, CA – Richard Salisbury Ellis, the Steele Family Professor of Astronomy at Caltech, has received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Awarded annually since 1824, the Gold […]