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Keck Observatory Astronomer Wins Top Award

Keck Observatory Astronomer Wins Top Award

January 20, 2012

A Keck Observatory astronomer who led the way to the discovery of a super-massive black hole at the center of our galaxy has been recognized this week with the 2012 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy, an...Read Article »
Most Distant Dwarf Galaxy Detected

Most Distant Dwarf Galaxy Detected

January 18, 2012

Kamuela, HI—Scientists have long struggled to detect the dim dwarf galaxies that orbit our own galaxy. So it came as a surprise on Jan. 18 when a team of astronomers using Keck II telescope’s...Read Article »
Smallest Solar System Found

Smallest Solar System Found

January 9, 2012

KAMUELA, HI – For years the search for exoplanets has largely been like Gulliver’s visit to Brobdingnag: colossal systems of giant gas planets orbiting mammoth stars. But astronomers have finally...Read Article »

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