Events
Events
Upcoming
When Machines Take Over: Astronomy in the 21st Century
05:00 pm - 06:30 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: J. Xavier Prochaska, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz Astronomer, University of California Observatories VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK | Join us as Professor X describes the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its many influences on modern astronomy. These range from automating analysis of billions of galaxies to detecting the […]
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Using Shadows to Shed New Light
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
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 […]
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Donation Drive for Volcano Victims
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 […]
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The Golden Age of Space Exploration
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Gates Performing Arts Center, HPA Campus, Waimea (Kamuela, HI) Download PDF Guest Speaker: Charles Elachi, Caltech Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science, Emeritus, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director 2001- 2016 ASTRONOMY TALK | Over the last 50 years, JPL spacecraft have visited every planet in our solar system and roved for more than 14 […]
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Journey Through the Universe: Landscapes of the Moon and Mars
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Gates Performing Arts Center, HPA Campus, Waimea Download PDF Brian Day, Lead for Lunar and Planetary Mapping and Modeling, Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), NASA Ames Research Center ASTRONOMY TALK – Brian Day will give a demonstration of the lunar and planetary mapping and modeling portals his team developed at NASA. He will […]
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The Science Behind the Movie Interstellar with Nobel Prize Winner Kip Thorne
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Mauna Lani Bay Hotel: 68-1400 Mauna Lani Drive, Kohala Coast, Hawaii – Hale Hoaloha Pavilion Download PDF Theoretical astrophysicist Kip Thorne, 2017 Nobel Physics Prize Laureate, Executive Producer of Interstellar, Caltech Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) KECK OBSERVATORY ASTRONOMY TALK: How scientifically accurate is the […]
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Keck Observatory Open House 2017
10:00 am - 03:00 pm
WAIMEA HEADQUARTERS: 65-1120 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela HI 96743 You’re invited! Come join us as we open the doors of our Waimea Headquarters to the community for a fun, family-friendly event filled with cosmic activities and a star-studded program featuring renowned astronomers and engineers. Bring your keiki, ohana, friends, and neighbors to experience a variety of […]
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Waimea Solar System Walk
10:00 am - 02:00 pm
The Annual Waimea Solar System Walk Start at Keck Observatory Headquarters: 65-1120 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela HI 96743; End at CFHT: 65-1238 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela HI 96743 Download PDF These stuffed plush celestial buddies at Canada France Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT), in partnership with W. M. Keck Observatory and University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, present: […]
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Black Holes’ Last Tango in Space: LIGO and the Dawn of Gravitational-wave Astronomy
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Guest Speaker: David Reitze, Executive Director, LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology ASTRONOMY 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 […]
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Life in the Universe
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Abraham Loeb, Chair of the Astronomy Department, Founding Director of the Black Hole Initiative, Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation Harvard University ASTRONOMY 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 […]
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The Restless Universe: Palomar Transient Factory
07:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Dan David Prize Winner, Shrinivas Kulkarni California Institute of Technology Cosmic 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 […]
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