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Keck Week Video #13: Between the Galaxies: The Intergalactic Medium
August 23, 2013 | Dr. Xavier Prochaska
Xavier Prochaska, from UC Santa Cruz, explains how his team employs the "science of silhouette" to discover and characterize the intergalactic medium and the large-scale structure of the... -
Keck Week Video #12: Surveying the Population of Galaxies with Keck
August 22, 2013 | Dr. Sandra Faber
UC Santa Cruz's Sandra Faber uses the mighty Keck telescopes to travel back to within 400 million years of the Big Bang in her work surveying the galactic population of the Universe. (Please be... -
Keck Week Video #11: Mergers and Acquisitions by the Andromeda Galaxy as Documented by Keck
August 16, 2013 | Raja Guhathakurta
Raja Guhathakurta, of the University of California at Santa Cruz, has a deep passion for advancing astronomy research and education. A professor in one of America’s finest astronomy programs, Raja... -
Keck Week Video #10: The Milky Way’s Entourage
August 9, 2013 | Dr. Marla Geha
This talk presents a new class of dark matter dominated small galaxies found in the neighborhood of our Milky Way Galaxy. Unlike the low luminosity of the objects she studies, Dr. Marla Geha from... -
Keck Week Video #9: Nobel Worthy: The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
August 2, 2013 | Dr. Alex Filippenko
Astronomer Alex Filippenko has been recognized nationally as a science educator. The recipient of the top teaching awards at UC Berkeley, he has been voted by students the “Best Professor” on... -
Keck Week Video #8: Keck and the Outer Solar System
July 26, 2013 | Dr. Mike Brown
This video is given by one of the most well-known solar system astronomers in our community, Dr. Mike Brown from Caltech. This talk, featured at the Keck Week Science Meeting in March 2013, describes... -
Keck Week Video #7: Keck Observatory Explores our Solar System
July 26, 2013 | Dr. Mike Mumma
Dr. Mike Mumma from NASA gives a fascinating talk exploring the biggest questions in science including, "Why are we here?", and "Why is Earth wet and alive?". This ~25-minute gem was recorded during... -
Keck Week Video #6: Discovering New Worlds with Keck
July 19, 2013 | Dr. Geoff Marcy
Discovering New Worlds with Keck, is given by UC Berkeley’s Geoff Marcy, one of the Observatory’s original Planet Hunters. In 2006, Dr. Marcy and his collaborators were lauded as pioneers in... -
Keck Week Video #5: Meet the Cool Neighbors: Brown Dwarfs as Seen by Keck
July 12, 2013 | Dr. Michael Liu
Recorded at the Keck Week Science Meeting, this video features the University of Hawaii's Michael Liu delving into Brown Dwarfs, the sub-stellar objects that straddle the properties of the lightest... -
Keck Week Video #4: MOSFIRE: Early Results and Prospects
July 4, 2013 | Dr. Charles Steidel
With first light in April, 2012, MOSFIRE is the latest, extremely powerful instrument in the Keck Observatory arsenal, allowing scientists to gather data on chemical makeup, distance and velocity (to...