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Solved! 40 Year-old Mystery on the Size of Shadowy Galaxies
January 5, 2016 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – Using the world’s largest telescopes, researchers discovered ancient cold gas clouds larger than galaxies in the early Universe. The discovery was... -
Maunakea Observatories Put New Spin on Galaxy Formation
December 14, 2015 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – A team of Australian researchers used two Maunakea-based observatories – Gemini North and W. M. Keck Observatory – to discover why some galaxies are... -
NASA Honors Keck Observatory for Opening its Archive to the Public
December 8, 2015 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – The W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has just been awarded the 2015 NASA Group Achievement Award for pioneering the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) ten... -
$4 Million Laser Marks Ground Zero for Adaptive Optics Science
December 8, 2015 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – Hawaii’s W. M. Keck Observatory has successfully deployed a $4 million laser system that provides a marked increase in the resolution and clarity of... -
Hawaii Discovers: The World’s Leading Observatory Was Born in Hawaii 25 Years Ago
November 24, 2015 | Cosmic Matters
By Steve JeffersonTwenty-five years ago in 1990, the average US house cost $123,000, the Dow Jones averaged 2633 and gasoline cost a little more... -
“First Light” Marks 25 Years of Hawaii’s Leadership in Astronomy
November 22, 2015 | Cosmic Matters
By Sean AdkinsEvery night, all over the world, people look up at the sky and wonder about the distant stars. Here in Hawaii we have the... -
Astronomy Talk: Manu `Imiloa:—Modern & Ancient Ways of Navigating our Universe
October 6, 2015 | Cosmic Videos
A Hilo native born in Keaukaha and raised in Panaʻewa, Celeste “Cesi” Manuia Ha’o is an... -
Prodigious ‘Brightest Cluster Galaxy’ Discovered Churning Trillions of Stars
September 10, 2015 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant massive galaxy cluster with a core bursting with new stars. The discovery, made with the... -
Hot Jupiter-esque Discovery Hints at Planet Formation
August 13, 2015 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – A team of astronomers discovered a Jupiter-like planet within a young system that could serve as a decoder ring for understanding how planets formed... -
The Future of Maunakea Rests in the Hands of Hawaii’s People
August 12, 2015 | Cosmic Matters
By Doug Simons and Hilton LewisThe international astronomical community has converged in Honolulu. The timing—in the midst of the controversy...