http://keckobservatory.org/news en lohanlon@keck.hawaii.edu Copyright 2012 2012-02-08T21:49:31+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/live_webcast_tom_soifer_keck_spitzer http://keckobservatory.org/news/live_webcast_tom_soifer_keck_spitzer#When:21:49:31Z On Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, Keck Observatory will be hosting a live webcast of an astronomy talk by Dr. Tom Soifer of Caltech. The title of the talk is “Seeing the Invisible Universe.” Dr. Soifer 2012-02-08T21:49:31+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/new_super_earth_habitable_zone http://keckobservatory.org/news/new_super_earth_habitable_zone#When:18:59:00Z Santa Cruz, CA—An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times that 2012-02-02T18:59:00+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/keck_observatory_astronomer_wins_top_award http://keckobservatory.org/news/keck_observatory_astronomer_wins_top_award#When:00:20:51Z A Keck Observatory astronomer who led the way to the discovery of a super-massive black hole at the center of our galaxy has been recognized this week with the 2012 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy, an 2012-01-21T00:20:51+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/most_distant_dwarf_galaxy_detected http://keckobservatory.org/news/most_distant_dwarf_galaxy_detected#When:02:27:33Z Kamuela, HI—Scientists have long struggled to detect the dim dwarf galaxies that orbit our own galaxy. So it came as a surprise on Jan. 18 when a team of astronomers using Keck II telescope’s 2012-01-19T02:27:33+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/a_sprinkling_of_earth-sized_exoplanets http://keckobservatory.org/news/a_sprinkling_of_earth-sized_exoplanets#When:20:12:28Z KAMUELA, HI – For years the search for exoplanets has largely been like Gulliver’s visit to Brobdingnag: colossal systems of giant gas planets orbiting mammoth stars. But astronomers have finally 2012-01-09T20:12:28+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/keck_subaru_telescopes_find_rare_galaxy_at_dawn_of_time http://keckobservatory.org/news/keck_subaru_telescopes_find_rare_galaxy_at_dawn_of_time#When:18:00:16Z Synopsis: • The galaxy GN-108036 is one of the most distant objects ever found in the universe. • Galaxies like GN-108036 may be responsible for ending the universe’s early “Dark Age.” • The Keck 2011-12-21T18:00:16+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/kepler_keck_telescopes_discover_earth-size_exoplanets http://keckobservatory.org/news/kepler_keck_telescopes_discover_earth-size_exoplanets#When:21:06:07Z NASA’s Kepler mission, aided by the Keck I Telescope, has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a Sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are 2011-12-20T21:06:07+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/keck_telescope_creator_to_receive_2012_franklin_medal http://keckobservatory.org/news/keck_telescope_creator_to_receive_2012_franklin_medal#When:19:59:23Z The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia has announced that Jerry Nelson, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will receive the 2012 Benjamin Franklin 2011-12-19T19:59:23+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/video_oodles_of_exoplanets http://keckobservatory.org/news/video_oodles_of_exoplanets#When:18:38:27Z This is the video of a Dec. 8, 2011, Keck Astronomy Talk at the Kahilu Theatre in Waimea-Kamuela, Hawaii. The talk is entitled “Oodles of Exoplanets: The Search for Other Earths,” by Greg Laughlin, 2011-12-16T18:38:27+00:00 http://keckobservatory.org/news/astronomers_find_new_clues_to_supernova_origins http://keckobservatory.org/news/astronomers_find_new_clues_to_supernova_origins#When:18:00:53Z Synopsis: Astronomers have taken a big step forward in identifying the unseen partners of stars that blow up and make the universe’s “standard candle” supernovas. Observations by both Keck 2011-12-14T18:00:53+00:00