Cosmic Videos
A New Tool to Map Entire Galaxies
All the popular images of galaxies, while beautiful, do not provide adequate information for astronomers to measure the galaxies’ inherent …
Exploring the Pluto System and Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth with NASAʻs New Horizons
NASA’s New Horizons is the first spacecraft to successfully explore the Pluto System and a Kuiper Belt Object named Arrokoth, …
A Stretching Gas Cloud and Other Dusty Objects that Orbit Close to the Galactic Black Hole
The Supermassive Black Hole (SBH) at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is surrounded by a dense cluster of …
Shadow the Scientists – Research as a Spectator Sport
The Shadow the Scientists (StS) initiative out of UC Santa Cruz offers the opportunity for students anywhere in the world …
NASA: Exploring the Secrets of the Universe and Improving Life on Earth
Ever since NASA was established in 1958, expanding human knowledge of Earth, atmospheric phenomena, and space has been NASA’s priority …
Intergalactic Immigration
The majority of atoms in the Milky Way, including on our planet, did not originate within our own galaxy and …
First Images of Exoplanets With the Webb Telescope and a Look Forward to Keck’s New Exoplanet Imager
This past summer at UC Santa Cruz, an international team of astronomers assembled to produce the first images and spectra …
Getting a Sharp Look at Dark Matter
Look around you. Everything that is familiar to us, what we would call “normal” matter, makes up just a tiny …
Searching for Distant Galaxies Using Keck and JWST
We’ll go on a journey of discovery that started with a small blip in Hubble images, became a fully-confirmed galaxy …
Discovering Planets With the Keck Planet Finder
Keck Observatory’s newest instrument is the Keck Planet Finder (KPF), a spectrometer that will allow for the discovery of smaller …
The Sound of Stars
Although we cannot hear it with our own ears, the Sun and other stars in the sky have been performing …
Unveiling Outflowing Galactic Winds with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager
In this talk, research will be presented that Dr. Coil and collaborators have been leading on extremely fast outflowing galactic …
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