Cosmic Videos
SCALES: A New Keck Instrument for Imaging Exoplanets at 1000 Wavelengths Simultaneously
Exoplanets are a class of astrophysical objects, like stars and galaxies, where a wide range of detection and characterization methods …
A Night in the Life of Keck Observatory
You’ve seen the discoveries, but how are they made? In this presentation, we follow the process of Keck Observatory’s science, …
Liger: A next-generation instrument for Keck Adaptive Optics
Keck Adaptive Optics (AO) has been revolutionary in making profound discoveries about our Universe like the first-ever directly-imaged extrasolar planets …
Dwarf Galaxies, Dark Matter, and the Milky Way
Professor, Astronomy Department, Yale UniversityDozens of small galaxies have been discovered orbiting our Milky Way galaxy over the past decade …
Hunting for the Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe
We understand very little about the first galaxies in the universe whose light has traveled over 12 billion years to …
The Surface of Europa: A Window to the Ocean Below
Jupiter’s moon Europa is a prime target for exploring habitability in the Solar System. Beneath a comparatively thin ice shell, …
A Planet Not Our Own
Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (ISAS)We thought we understood the planets of our solar system until we discovered new …
Keck Observatory And The Ongoing Exoplanet Revolution
The exoplanet revolution began in 1995 with the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of a “Hot Jupiter” orbiting the sun-like star 51 …
Advances in Keck Instrumentation and Future Discovery
The W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes are among the most scientifically productive on Earth. The two 10-meter optical/infrared telescopes on …
Illuminating the Origins of the Universe’s Fastest Explosions
When we look at the night sky, we see a static universe. However, astronomical observational surveys have revealed that our …
Modern Astronomy on Maunakea
Astronomy on Maunakea originated in community efforts to revive the Hawaii Island economy following the 1960 tsunami that devastated Hilo …
The NIRSPEC Upgrade for Keck: Enhancing observations from the solar system to exoplanets and beyond
The NIRSPEC instrument upgrade was completed in December 2018, just in time to observe the fly-by of a near-Earth comet. …
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