Subscribe BIGGEST, BRIGHTEST, HOTTEST STAR-FORMING REGION FOUND
Oct 30, 2003
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (October 30th, 2003) A serendipitous discovery has given astronomers, for the first time, the ability to study an enormous star-forming region from the very early days of the Universe, when it was less than 2 billion years old, or about 15 percent its current age. The discovery...
LASER GUIDE STAR AVAILABLE FOR ADAPTIVE OPTICS
Oct 7, 2003
KAMUELA, Hawaii (October 7th, 2003) A major milestone in astronomical history took place last month at the W.M. Keck Observatory when scientists, for the first time, used a laser to create an artificial guide star on the Keck II 10-meter telescope to correct the blurring of a star with adaptive...
KECK INTERFEROMETER BREAKS GALACTIC BARRIER
Oct 1, 2003
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (October 1st, 2003) A galaxy far beyond our own Milky Way, with a monstrous, churning black hole in its center, has been observed by two optical telescopes working in unison as an interferometer. These observations reveal the finest level of detail in a galaxy ever produced at...
UCLA OBTAINS MOLECULAR FINGERPRINTS FOR CELESTIAL BROWN DWARFS
Sep 3, 2003
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (September 3rd, 2003) Elusive brown dwarfs, the missing link between gas giant planets like Jupiter and small, low-mass stars, have now been “fingerprinted”by UCLA astronomy professor Ian S. McLean and colleagues, using the Keck II Telescope at the W.M. Keck Observatory in...
HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES OF ASTEROID (511) DAVIDA
Sep 1, 2003
MONTEREY, Calif. (September 1st, 2003) A team of scientists from the W.M. Keck Observatory and several other research institutions have made the first full-rotational, ground-based observations of asteroid (511) Davida, a large, main-belt asteroid that measures 320 km (200 miles) in diameter. These...
Keck Interferometer MAKES DEBUT DISCOVERY
Jul 1, 2003
KAMUELA, Hawaii (July 1st, 2003) Astronomers have observed a young star ringed by a swirling disc that may spin off planets, marking the first published science observation using two linked 10-meter (33-foot) telescopes in Hawaii. The linked telescopes at the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea,...
NEW EVIDENCE FOUND ABOUT UNIVERSE’S HEAVIEST PHASE OF STAR FORMATION
Apr 16, 2003
PASADENA, Calif. (April 16th, 2003) New distance measurements from faraway galaxies further strengthen the view that the strongest burst of star formation in the universe occurred about two billion years after the Big Bang. Reporting in the April 17 issue of the journal Nature, California...
KECK OBSERVATORY’S PREMIER PLANET-HUNTING MACHINE IS GETTING EVEN BETTER
Jan 6, 2003
SEATTLE, Washington (January 6th, 2003) The world’s best planet-hunting machine, the Keck High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, will be getting even better this year with an advanced imaging array that will improve efforts to detect extra-solar planets, examine distant quasars, measure...
