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Scientists Discover Massive Galaxy Made of 99.99 Percent Dark Matter
August 25, 2016 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — Using the world's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a massive galaxy that consists almost entirely of Dark... -
Cosmic Neighbors Inhibit Star Formation, Even in the Early-Universe
August 24, 2016 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — The international University of California, Riverside-led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of the most distant clusters of galaxies ever found,... -
UCLA Astronomers Use Keck Observatory to Look Back 12 Billion Years and Measure Oxygen
August 3, 2016 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — UCLA astronomers have used the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii to make the first accurate measurement of the abundance of oxygen in a distant... -
Astronomy Talk: The Remaining 95 Percent - Insights From Gravitational Lensing
July 28, 2016 | Cosmic Videos
In our standard model of cosmology, only five percent of the mass-energy budget of the Universe is... -
More Than 100 Planets Confirmed in Single Trove
July 18, 2016 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers have discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds. The researchers achieved this extraordinary discovery... -
Discovered: Youngest Fully-Formed Exoplanet Ever
June 20, 2016 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – A team of Caltech-led researchers discovered the youngest fully-formed exoplanet ever detected using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii and... -
Planet-Devouring Star Reveals Possible Limestone Crumbs
June 13, 2016 | News
By Steve JeffersonMAUNAKEA, HI – A group of researchers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered a planet-like body that may have been encrusted in limestone and is... -
Universe’s Expansion is Faster Than Expected
June 2, 2016 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii have obtained the most precise measurement yet of how fast the universe is expanding at... -
A Young Mammoth Cluster of Galaxies Sighted in the Early Universe
May 25, 2016 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – Astronomers have uncovered evidence for a vast collection of young galaxies 12 billion light years away. The newly discovered “proto-cluster” of... -
Astronomy Talk: The 2015-16 El Niño: Wind on the Water and the Weather on Mauna Kea
May 19, 2016 | Cosmic Videos
In 2015, the global wind machine fired up record numbers of powerful hurricanes in the central...