Saturday, March 16, from 11 am to 3 pm. Free and open to the Public. A unique collection of hands on exhibits, demonstrations and presentations brought together by Keck Observatory staff for Hawaii Island residents and visitors to learn everything they would like to know about our science and technology.
Title: Black Holes and the Fate of the UniverseView Astronomer’s Website
Title: Violent events in rocky planetary systems: Implications for the fate of technological civilizations, including our own<a href=”http://personnel.physics.ucla.edu/directory/faculty/zuckerman”>View Astronomer’s Website</a>
<strong>Fun and Learning for the Whole Family!</strong>Grab your Solar System Passport and take a stroll along the Big Island’s own planet walk. On this scale-model journey, learn interesting facts about our cosmic neighborhood. Start at the Sun booth stationed at Keck headquarters and end up visiting Pluto and the Kuiper Belt at CFHT headquarters. Keiki […]
<strong>Stars born in extreme environments</strong>Many stars like the Sun were born in fairly quiet regions of the Milky Way galaxy. Others formed in very extreme environments, including those around the supermassive black hole at the very center of the galaxy. Do stars and star clusters form differently in the extremely harsh environment near the Galactic […]
Title: Transits of Venus from Earth, Jupiter & Saturn: Past, Present & Future
Title: How Stars Destroyed Most of the Atoms in the Universe
Title: City Dark: Search for Night on a Sleepless Planet
Title: Seeing the Invisible Universe
Gates Performing Arts Center, HPA Campus, Waimea (Kamuela, HI) Download PDF Guest Speaker: James L. Green, NASA Chief Scientist ASTRONOMY TALK | Current estimates are that over 150 million Americans viewed the Great American Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017 with another 60 million viewing it electronically from TV or the internet. It’s amazing to […]
W. M. Keck Observatory Waimea Headquarters: 65-1120 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela, HI 96743 Monday May 14, 2018 – Tuesday May 29, 2018 08:30 am – 04:30 pm Download PDF PLEASE JOIN US IN HELPING HAWAII ISLAND VOLCANO VICTIMS Waimea, Hawaii – Hundreds of families in the Puna District on the east side of the Big Island […]
Gates Performing Arts Center, HPA Campus, Waimea (Kamuela, HI) Guest Speaker: Ryan Foley, Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of California, Santa Cruz ASTRONOMY TALK | In 1916, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, a radiant form of energy similar to light, but caused by gravity. A century later, scientists detected the […]
