Search results for: “telescopes”
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Existing Maunakea telescopes announce return to work
HILO, HI – After a four-week suspension of work at the summit of Maunakea, the existing telescopes will attempt a return to operations. “The Maunakea Observatories represent an invaluable sector […]
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Research Using the Keck Telescopes – Greg Doppmann and Anna Ciurlo
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How Two Ground-based Telescopes Support NASA’s Cassini Mission
Maunakea, Hawaii – When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft plunges into the atmosphere of Saturn on Sept. 15, ending its 20 years of exploration, astronomers will observe the giant planet from Earth, […]
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Keck I and Keck II Telescopes
“ A great observatory like the Keck is one of those human achievements which, like the Large Hadron Collider, the Human Genome Project, William Shakespeare and Franz Schubert – render […]
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Telescopes Team Up to Find Distant Uranus-Sized Planet Through Microlensing
Maunakea, Hawaii – The W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star. The planet was discovered […]
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Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid
Kamuela, HI — Combining observations from the world’s largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main-belt asteroid (87) Sylvia has a complex interior, thanks […]
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An Archaeological Road Trip with the Keck Telescopes
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50 Years Building the Telescopes
In 1987 there were 2 billion fewer people on the planet, The Simpsons were brand new to television, a first class stamp cost 22 cents and the first ?naked-eye? supernova […]
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Keck & Subaru Telescopes Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time
Kamuela, HI – Astronomers have spotted one of the most distant galaxies known, churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The blob-like galaxy, called GN-108036, is located 12.9 billion […]
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Kepler, Keck Telescopes Discover Earth-Size Exoplanets
NASA’s Kepler mission, aided by the Keck I Telescope, has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a Sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are […]