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Keck Observatory Helps Offer Best View Yet of Merging Galaxies in Distant Universe
August 26, 2014
MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — An international team of astronomers has obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the universe was only half its current age using the... Read more »
Observations Reveal Massive Eruptions on Jupiter’s Moon Io
August 4, 2014
Mauna Kea, Hawaii — Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter's moon Io within a two-week period, leading astronomers to speculate that these presumed rare "outbursts," which can send... Read more »
Merging Galaxies Illuminate the Cosmic Food Chain
June 30, 2014
MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – Scientists studying a ‘twin’ of the Milky Way have used the W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Observatory to accurately model how it is swallowing another, smaller... Read more »
Ancient Worlds from Another Galaxy Discovered Next Door
June 3, 2014
MAUNA KEA, HI -- An international team of scientists, led by astronomers at Queen Mary University of London, report of two new planets orbiting Kapteyn’s star, one of the oldest stars found near... Read more »
Planet Found with an 80,000-Year Orbit
May 14, 2014
MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – A team of researchers has discovered and photographed a gas giant only 155 light years from our solar system, adding to the short list of exoplanets discovered through direct... 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 »
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 »
Water Vapor Detected in the Atmosphere of a Hot Jupiter
February 24, 2014
Mauna Kea, HI—California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers using data gathered at the W. M. Keck Observatory have developed a new technique for planetary scientists that could provide... 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 »
UCSC Scientists Capture First Cosmic Web Filaments at Keck Observatory
January 19, 2014
MAUNA KEA, HAWAII – Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies... Read more »
