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Astronomy Talk: Gravitational Lensing
February 9, 2017 | Cosmic Videos
Observing distant objects allows us to peer back in time to early stages of the universe, across the... -
Keck Observatory’s New Planet Imager Delivers First Science
January 31, 2017 | News
MAUNAKEA, HAWAI'I - A new device on the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has delivered its first images, showing a ring of planet-forming dust around a star and,... -
Astronomers Measure Universe Expansion, Get Hints of ‘New Physics’
January 27, 2017 | News
MAUNAKEA, HAWAI'I - Astronomers have just made a new measurement of the Hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding, and it doesn’t quite line up with a... -
W. M. Keck Observatory Will Peer Deep into the Cosmic Web
January 24, 2017 | News
MAUNAKEA, HAWAI'I - W. M. Keck Observatory (Keck Observatory) is pushing the cutting edge of scientific discovery with the addition of the world's most sensitive instrument... -
Long-Term, Hi-Res Tracking of Eruptions on Jupiter’s Moon Io
October 20, 2016 | News
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii— Jupiter's moon Io continues to be the most volcanically active body in the solar system, as documented by the longest series of frequent, high-resolution... -
Rare Fossil Relic of Early Milky Way Discovered
September 7, 2016 | News
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – A fossilized remnant of the early Milky Way harboring stars of hugely different ages has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. This... -
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...