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Keck Week Video #10: The Milky Way’s Entourage
This talk presents a new class of dark matter dominated small galaxies found in the neighborhood of our Milky Way Galaxy. Unlike the low luminosity of the objects she studies, Dr. Marla Geha from Yale University shines brightly in this talk describing research in action at the W. M. Keck Observatory. Revealed by the potent […]
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Keck Week Video #9: Nobel Worthy: The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
Astronomer Alex Filippenko has been recognized nationally as a science educator. The recipient of the top teaching awards at UC Berkeley, he has been voted by students the “Best Professor” on campus a record 9 times. This video, recorded at the Keck Science Meeting in Hawaii this past March, features Dr. Filippenko talking about […]
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Keck Week Video #8: Keck and the Outer Solar System
This video is given by one of the most well-known solar system astronomers in our community, Dr. Mike Brown from Caltech. This talk, featured at the Keck Week Science Meeting in March 2013, describes several objects discovered and characterized in our outer solar system including Haumea, a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt named after […]
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Keck Week Video #7: Keck Observatory Explores our Solar System
Dr. Mike Mumma from NASA gives a fascinating talk exploring the biggest questions in science including, “Why are we here?”, and “Why is Earth wet and alive?”. This ~25-minute gem was recorded during the Keck Week Science Meeting in March, 2013. (Please wait for the video to load)
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Keck Week Video #6: Discovering New Worlds with Keck
Discovering New Worlds with Keck, is given by UC Berkeley’s Geoff Marcy, one of the Observatory’s original Planet Hunters. In 2006, Dr. Marcy and his collaborators were lauded as pioneers in discovering more than 100 planets orbiting nearby stars. Today the total number of exoplanet discoveries exceeds 1,000 and is growing steadily. The field of […]
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Keck Week Video #5: Meet the Cool Neighbors: Brown Dwarfs as Seen by Keck
Recorded at the Keck Week Science Meeting, this video features the University of Hawaii’s Michael Liu delving into Brown Dwarfs, the sub-stellar objects that straddle the properties of the lightest stars and the heaviest planets. Thanks to the high performance of our pioneering Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system and the brilliant work of Dr. […]
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Keck Week Video #4: MOSFIRE: Early Results and Prospects
With first light in April, 2012, MOSFIRE is the latest, extremely powerful instrument in the Keck Observatory arsenal, allowing scientists to gather data on chemical makeup, distance and velocity (to name a few) on up to 46 cosmic objects at once. Dr. Charles Steidel from Caltech talks about MOSFIRE’s early impact on science as recorded […]
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Astronomy Talk: Science Synergies — NASA Space Missions and the W. M. Keck Observatory
The dynamic duo of NASA’s space missions and Keck Observatory has led to some of the most exciting astronomy results in recent history. Keck Observatory is a leader in the study of planets around other stars, both discovering them with precise Doppler measurements and measuring their properties with high resolution spectroscopy and adaptive optics imaging. […]
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Keck Week Video #3: Massive and Crowded: Keck and the Center of Our Galaxy
UCLA’s Dr. Andrea Ghez talks about her award winning work on the black hole in the center of our galaxy and the importance of Keck Observatory’s adaptive optic program. (Please be patient while video loads.)
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Keck Week Video #2: Keck’s Adaptive Optics Systems: Past, Present and Future
Drs. Claire Max from UCSC, Bruce Macintosh from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and our very own Peter Wizinowich giving a great overview of the past, present and future of Keck Observatory’s adapotive optics program.(Please be patient while video loads.)
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