Entries tagged » NIRC2
Mega-galaxy is Missing Link in History of Cosmos
May 21, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii – Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, according to UC Irvine-led research... Read more »
Rare Brown Dwarf Discovery Provides Benchmark for Future Exoplanet Research
January 20, 2014
MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp, the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf... Read more »
Serendipitous Supernova
February 13, 2014
By Steve JeffersonTwo weeks ago a group of astronomy students from the University of London Observatory were getting an introductory demonstration on how to use a telescope-mounted camera. With... Read more »
Distant Asteroid Revealed to be a Complex Mini Geological World
February 27, 2014
Mauna Kea, HI—After 8 years of observations scientists from the SETI Institute have found an exotic orbit for the largest Trojan asteroid, (624) Hektor—the only one known to possess a moon. The... Read more »
First Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Planet Confirmed by Keck and Gemini Observatories
April 17, 2014
The first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory. The initial... Read more »
