Waimea Family Food Truck Friday
W. M. Keck Observatory Headquarters 65-1120 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela, HI, United StatesJoin us for dinner Friday, August 16th!
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From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole
Kahilu Theatre 67-1186 Lindsey Rd, Kamuela, HI, United StatesGuest Speaker Andrea Ghez 2020 Nobel Prize Winner UCLA Professor of Physics and Astronomy FREE event – space is limited, ticket registration required: GET TICKETS Learn about new developments in the study of supermassive black holes. Through the capture and analysis of twenty years of high-resolution imaging, the UCLA Galactic Center Group has moved the […]
244th American Astronomical Society Meeting
Monona Terrace Convention Center 1 John Nolen Drive, Madison, WI, United StatesW. M. Keck Observatory will join the national astronomy community at the 244th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Madison, Wisconsin. We will be participating in events and sessions about Hawaiʻi Astronomy – stay tuned for details!
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life, From a Reporter’s Perspective
Kahilu Theatre 67-1186 Lindsey Rd, Kamuela, HI, United StatesGuest Speaker Nadia Drake Science Journalist For millennia, humans have wondered whether there’s life beyond Earth. Over the last half-century or so, these musings have evolved from fantasy and speculation into a legitimate scientific endeavor, guided largely by the Drake Equation — a formula that estimates the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in our Milky […]
Waimea Family Food Truck Friday
W. M. Keck Observatory Headquarters 65-1120 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela, HI, United StatesThe Waimea Family Food Truck Friday is a monthly community event that happens on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi in the heart of Waimea Town, on the front lawn of W. M. Keck Observatory’s office headquarters. Come out and support the local food and beverage vendors.
Maunakea Community Weed Pull
Visitor Information Station Maunakea, HI, United StatesSince 2012, the Mālama Maunakea Volunteer Weed Pulls are part of the University of Hawaiʻi Center for Maunakea Stewardship’s ongoing Mālama Maunakea efforts to protect the resources on the mountain by helping to control fireweed (Senecio madagascariensis) and other invasive plant species around Maunakea’s 9,000′ elevation. Removing invasive species and weeds helps to reduce habitat […]
Exploring the Pluto System and Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth with NASA’s New Horizons
Kahilu Theatre 67-1186 Lindsey Rd, Kamuela, HI, United StatesGuest Speaker Alan Stern Principal Investigator NASA New Horizons Mission, Southwest Research Institute NASA’s New Horizons is the first spacecraft to successfully explore the Pluto System and a Kuiper Belt Object named Arrokoth, making history as the farthest flyby ever performed in our solar system. Learn more about the mission, the scientific payload it carries, […]
Astronomy Talk: NASA: Exploring the Secrets of the Universe and Improving Life on Earth
Kahilu Theatre 67-1186 Lindsey Rd, Kamuela, HI, United StatesGuest Speaker Thomas H. Zurbuchen Former Head of Science NASA Ever since NASA was established in 1958, expanding human knowledge of Earth, atmospheric phenomena, and space has been NASA’s priority. Discoveries made with both robotic and human exploration has changed how we think about the universe, our planet, and life beyond our planet. Dr. Zurbuchen […]
Black Holes’ Last Tango in Space: LIGO and the Dawn of Gravitational-wave Astronomy
Guest Speaker: David Reitze, Executive Director, LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of TechnologyASTRONOMY TALK | The first direct detections of gravitational waves in late 2015 were made possible by a dedicated forty year quest to design, build, and operate LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Why so long?? Dr. Reitze will discuss what makes gravitational waves so […]
Life in the Universe
Abraham Loeb, Chair of the Astronomy Department, Founding Director of the Black Hole Initiative, Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation Harvard UniversityASTRONOMY TALK | Is life most likely to emerge at the present cosmic time near a star like the Sun? Dr. Loeb will review the habitability of the universe throughout cosmic history […]
The Restless Universe: Palomar Transient Factory
Dan David Prize Winner, Shrinivas Kulkarni California Institute of TechnologyCosmic explosions were first noted nearly two thousand years ago but only in the past hundred years have astronomers secured recognition of classes of explosions ranging from exotic eruptions to the death of stars (supernovae). The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) and its successor, the Zwicky Transient Factory (ZTF) […]
Fingerprints of the first stars: Searching for Population III with Keck
Our current story for the origin of the heavy elements has at its core a recycling program on the grandest of scales. Using Keck, we have traced atoms as they flow from the intergalactic medium into galaxies, where they are incorporated into stars, undergo fusion, and are returned in supernovae and other types of stellar […]