Cosmic Videos

Evenings with Astronomers: An Archaeological Road Trip with the Keck Telescopes

Astronomy Talk: Black Holes and the Fate of the Universe

This is a recoding of a Keck Observatory Astronomy Talk given by Dr. Günter Hasinger, Astronomer and Director of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. His talk, ‘Black Holes ad the Fate of the Universe’, was given on November 20, 2012 at the Gates Performing Arts Center at Hawaii Preparatory Academy. It’s a little […]

Astronomy Talk: Violent Events in Rocky Planetary Systems

This is a recoding of a Keck Observatory Astronomy Talk given by Dr. Benjamin Zuckerman, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at UCLA. His talk, ‘Violent Events in Rocky Planetary Systems: Implications for the Fate of Technological Civilizations, Including Our Own’, was given on October 25, 2012 at the Gates Performing Arts Center at Hawaii Preparatory Academy. […]

Astronomy Talk: Stars Born in Extreme Environments

This is a recoding of a Keck Observatory Astronomy Talk given by Dr. Jessica Lu,  NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii (IfA). Her talk, ‘Stars Born in Extreme Environments’, was given on September 26, 2012 at the Gates Performing Arts Center at Hawaii Preparatory Academy.  The W. M. Keck […]

Venus Transit Webcast

On June 5, 2012, the planet Venus crossed the face of the Sun for the last time until the year 2117. Keck Observatory and the West Hawaii Astronomy Club teamed up to live webcast the entire event from the Keck I Telescope control room near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of […]

Venus Transits Past, Present & Future

What’s the science behind the recent Venus Transit? In this talk by Dr. Jay Pasachoff of Williams College presents brand new images and movies from the recent transit gathered in multiple wavelenghts and from many locations. This talk, which includes a detailed history of transit science, was delivered two days after the June 5, 2012, […]

Transits of Venus from Earth, Jupiter & Saturn: Past, Present & Future

On Thursday, June 7, 2012, Keck Observatory is hosting a live webcast of an astronomy talk by Dr. Jay Pasachoff of Williams College entitled “Transits of Venus from Earth, Jupiter and Saturn, Past Present and Future.”  The webcast begins at 7 pm Hawaiian Time, 10 pm Pacific Time (5 am GMT, May 11) and will […]

How Stars Destroyed Almost All the Atoms in the Universe

On Thursday, May 10, 2012, Keck Observatory hosted a live webcast of an astronomy talk by Dr. Brian Siana of the University of California at Riverside. Below is the recording of that talk, which was delivered to a live audience at the Kahilu Theatre in Kamuela-Waimea, Hawaii. The first galaxies had an extraordinary impact on […]

Cosmic Recyclers: How Stars Do It

University of California at Riverside

Evenings with Astronomers: The Intergalactic Medium and New Opportunities for Science

Dr. Chris Martin of Caltech explains the ongoing mission to directly observe the vast filaments of gas that connect clusters of galaxies, feed galaxies and create a vast web of matter that connects all matter in the universe. This lecture was delivered on April 10, 2012, at the Fairmont Orchid on the Island of Hawaii […]