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Evenings with Astronomers: MOSFIRE - A Backstage Pass to Frontier Science and Operations at Keck
January 15, 2015 | Dr. Marc Kassis
The MOSFIRE instrument is a case example of how Keck Observatory maintains its position as a premiere optical and infrared observatory by continuously implementing complex innovations that lead to... -
Mauna Kea Heavens 2
December 24, 2014 | Sean Goebel
We hosted Sean Goebel last summer on Mauna Kea to assist in him making a follow-up to his incredible Mauna Kea Skies video.Here's the result:Mauna Kea Heavens 2 from Sean Goebel -
Astronomy Talk: A Deep View on the Early Universe, Extreme Makeovers and Overweight Galaxies
August 13, 2014 | Dr. Mariska Kriek
As the building blocks of the Universe, galaxies are massive structures that can contain trillions of stars. Galaxies in today's Universe show a striking diversity among their properties, with large... -
Live From Keck Observatory: The Supermassive Black Hole
July 7, 2014 | Keck Observatory hosts the UCLA Galactic Center Group
Enjoy this rebroadcast of a rare observing run at the W. M. Keck Observatory, home of the two largest and most scientifically productive telescopes on Earth.On the evening of July 3, 2014, both of... -
Astronomy Talk: First Light in the Universe, The End of the Cosmic Dark Ages
June 19, 2014 | Dr. Michael Bolte
This Cosmic Video was produced from the June 19, 2014 Astronomy Talk given at Kahilu Theatre. The original description is below:In the first several hundred million years after the Big Bang, the... -
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...