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Astronomy Talk: Zooming into the Center of our Galaxy with Keck Observatory
May 20, 2014 | Dr. Leo Meyer
This Cosmic Video was produced from the May 28, 2014 Astronomy Talk given at Kahilu Theatre. The original description is below:The Galactic Center Group at UCLA has used the W. M. Keck Observatory... -
Building the Mighty Keck Observatory
April 29, 2014 | Credit: JPL
In 1985, construction began on what was to become, and still remain, the biggest optical/infrared telescopes on Earth. Since first science in 1993 for Keck I and 1996 for Keck II, the two telescopes... -
Evenings with Astronomers: Solving the Mysteries of Dark Matter
April 9, 2014 | Dr. James Bullock
The possibility that something unseen but important exists in our universe is an idea that is both eerie and ancient; it reaches back at least 2500 years to the pre-socratic thinker Philolaus.... -
Evenings with Astronomers: Black Holes, Galaxies and the Evolution of the Universe
March 12, 2014 | Dr. Meg Urry
Black holes form in the young Universe and, over the next 13 billion years or so, accrete enormous amounts of matter from the surrounding galaxy. By the present time, a black hole and its host galaxy... -
Evenings with Astronomers: Finding Astronomical Fossils with Keck
February 20, 2014 | Dr. Duncan Forbes
Ancient star clusters are the fossils of the astronomical world. They formed at early times in the Universe and many have survived to the present day. New discoveries made with the Keck Observatory... -
Astronomy Talk: Examining the Planet-Forming Zone Around New Stars
February 11, 2014 | Dr. Greg Doppmann
This Cosmic Video was produced from the February 11, 2014 Astronomy Talk given at Kahilu Theatre. The original description is below:W. M. Keck Observatory astronomer Greg Doppmann will give a talk on... -
Evenings with Astronomers: Breakthroughs in Discerning New Worlds
January 16, 2014 | Dr. Heather Knutson
The past decade has marked a period of great progress in our quest to discover and characterize exoplanets, or planets outside of our own solar system. Observations of transiting exoplanets, in... -
Astronomy Talk: The Search for Other Earths
November 21, 2013 | Dr. Andrew Howard
Andrew Howard, astronomer from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy, gave an illuminating talk about the hunt for exoplanets and the quest for another Earth. Since 1995, more than... -
Observing Run: Comet ISON
October 28, 2013 | Dr. Carey Lisse
Join in on rebroadcast from October 26, 2013 of a rare look into science in the making at the W. M. Keck Observatory, home of the largest and most scientifically productive telescopes on Earth.In the... -
Astronomy Talk: The Wonder of Comet ISON, A Relic From the Beginning of the Solar System
October 24, 2013 | Dr. Carey Lisse
Dr. Carey Lisse, head of NASA’s Comet ISON Observation Campaign, will present a timely talk on how and when comets were formed, and where they come from. Also a Senior Research Scientist with Johns...