Category: News
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HAWAII SELECTED FOR PRESTIGIOUS NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (September 8th, 2004) Hawaii has been selected as one of 13 national sites for the Journey through the Universe program run by the Challenger Center for Space […]
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KECK HELPS FIND NEW CLASS OF PLANET
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (August 31st, 2004) Astronomers announced today the first discovery of a new class of planets beyond our solar system about 10 to 20 times the size of […]
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EARLY FINDINGS ABOUT THE GALACTIC CENTER TO BE PRESENTED AT KECK SCIENCE MEETING
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (August 27th, 2004) New images of the galactic center will be presented at the 2004 Keck Science Meeting on September 17 at the UCLA Campus in Los […]
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KECK CONFIRMS TRANSIT PLANET
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (August 24th, 2004) Fifteen years ago, the largest telescopes in the world had yet to locate a planet orbiting another star. Today telescopes no larger than those […]
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SHARPEST IMAGE EVER OBTAINED OF A CIRCUMSTELLAR DISK REVEALS SIGNS OF YOUNG PLANETS
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (August 12th, 2004) The sharpest image ever taken of a dust disk around another star has revealed structures in the disk which are signs of unseen planets. […]
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NASA ISSUES DRAFT EIS
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (August 1st, 2004) ACTION: Notice of availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Outrigger Telescopes Project. SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act […]
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HAWAII STUDENTS STAND ON SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
KAMUELA, Hawaii (June 30th, 2004) In a science lab deep in a basement on the University of Hawaii-Hilo campus, 17 college students cluster around two slide projectors at the front […]
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SCIENTIST FROM UH HELPS NASA GET PHOTOS OF ‘WILD 2’
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (April 6th, 2004) A University of Hawaii astronomer’s observations with the Keck telescope on Mauna Kea enabled the NASA spacecraft Stardust to get closer to comet Wild […]
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HUBBLE AND KECK TEAM UP TO FIND FARTHEST KNOWN GALAXY
KAMUELA, Hawaii (February 15th, 2004) A team of astronomers may have discovered the most distant galaxy in the universe. Located an estimated 13 billion light-years away, the object is being […]
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BIGGEST, BRIGHTEST, HOTTEST STAR-FORMING REGION FOUND
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (October 30th, 2003) A serendipitous discovery has given astronomers, for the first time, the ability to study an enormous star-forming region from the very early days of […]