Subscribe METHANE CLOUDS DISCOVERED AT THE SOUTH POLE OF TITAN
Dec 18, 2002
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (December 18th, 2002) Teams of astronomers at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley have discovered methane clouds near the south pole of Titan. Titan is Saturn’s largest moon, larger than the planet Mercury, and is the only moon in...
EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT ERUPTION ON IO RIVALS LARGEST IN SOLAR SYATEM
Nov 13, 2002
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (November 13th, 2002) Routine monitoring of volcanic activity on Jupiter’s moon Io, now possible through advanced adaptive optics on the Keck II telescope in Hawaii, has turned up the largest eruption to date on Io’s surface or in the solar system. The eruption took place in...
KECK OPENS FOR COMPETITIVE ACCESS
Oct 10, 2002
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (October 10th, 2002) All U.S. astronomers will gain competitive access to the twin 10-meter Keck telescopes starting early next year via an innovative new National Science Foundation program administered by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). Known as the Telescope...
IO’S VOLCANIC SURFACE CAPTURED IN FULL MOTION
Jun 3, 2002
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (June 3rd, 2002) The highest resolution infrared global images ever taken of Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, are now available from the W.M. Keck Observatory and UC Berkeley in a unique animated movie and 3D Java applet. The images provide a complete survey of Io’s surface during...
EVIDENCE FOR YOUNG PLANETS FOUND
Apr 11, 2002
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (April 11th, 2002) Two independent teams of astronomers are presenting the discovery of new features in an edge-on disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris at the Gillett Symposium on “Debris Disks and the Formation of Planets” in Tucson, Arizona. Infrared images from the W. M....
WORLD’S LARGEST TELESCOPE CREATES A VIRTUAL STAR OVER HAWAII
Jan 4, 2002
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (January 4th, 2002) The W. M. Keck Observatory, home to the world’s two largest telescopes, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have created a “virtual” guide star that will greatly increase the ability of the Keck II telescope using adaptive optics to resolve...
BROWN DWARF FOUND AROUND NEARBY, SUN-LIKE STAR
Jan 1, 2002
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (January 1st, 2002) Astronomers using adaptive optics on the Gemini North and Keck telescopes have taken an image of a brown dwarf orbiting a nearby star similar to the Sun. The faint companion is separated from its parent star by less than the distance between the Sun and the...
