Cosmic Videos

Keck Week Video #1: A History of Keck Observatory

Former and longtime Chairman Ed Stone does a great walk-through starting with the early concept, through construction, to the first science from the Keck Observatory. (Please be patient while video loads.)

Evenings with Astronomers: The Accelerating Universe

Astronomer, author and educator Robert Kirshner is The Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University and currently a Guggenheim Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Science at UC Santa Barbara. Join us for an evening with one of our country’s most distinguished contributors to modern cosmology for his talk describing the discovery of the […]

Evenings with Astronomers: What Wonderful Worlds — Solar System Science with Keck

Astronomy Talk: MOSFIRE — a Powerful New Astronomy Tool at the W. M. Keck Observatory

On April 4, 2012 a new instrument obtained “first light” on the Keck I Telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea. Known as MOSFIRE, for Multi-Object Spectrometer For Infra-Red Exploration, it is the most advanced capability available today to study star formation, galaxy formation and the early universe. What makes this huge, […]

Evenings with Astronomers: Bumps, Booms and Burps

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 […]