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Keck Observatory Director Taft Armandroff to Step Down
January 13, 2014
Kamuela, HI – The Board of Directors of the W. M. Keck Observatory announced today that Taft Armandroff, executive director of the world’s premier ground-based astronomical observatory,... Read more »
First Detailed Look at a Normal Galaxy in the Very Early Universe
January 9, 2014
Mauna Kea, Hawaii – University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomer Regina Jorgenson has obtained the first image that shows the structure of a normal galaxy in the early universe as captured by the W. M.... Read more »
Hubble and Keck Unveil a Deep Sea of Small and Faint Early Galaxies
January 7, 2014
Mauna Kea, HI – A team of scientists led by astronomers at the University of California, Riverside has used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory to uncover the... Read more »
Kepler Team Validates 41 New Exoplanets with Keck I
January 7, 2014
Mauna Kea, Hawaii – The Kepler team today reports on four years of observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory targeting Kepler's exoplanet systems, announcing results this week at the American... Read more »
One in Five Stars Has Earth-sized Planet in Habitable Zone
November 4, 2013
Waimea, Hawaii – Scientists from University of California, Berkeley, and University of Hawaii, Manoa, have statistically determined that twenty percent of Sun-like stars in our galaxy have... Read more »
First Earth-Sized, Rocky Exoplanet Found
October 30, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii – A team of astronomers has found the first Earth-sized planet outside the solar system that has a rocky composition like that of Earth. This exoplanet, known as Kepler-78b,... Read more »
Astronomers Discover Most Distant Known Galaxy
October 23, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii — University of Texas at Austin astronomer Steven Finkelstein has led a team that has discovered and measured the distance to the most distant galaxy ever found, using the W. M.... Read more »
Caltech Scientists Detects First Progenitor of Type 1b Supernova
October 18, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii — Powerful new survey telescopes led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are being combined with the W. M. Keck Observatory to provide insight into rare, exotic... Read more »
Watery Asteroid Discovered in Dying Star Points to Habitable Exoplanets
October 10, 2013
Kamuela, HI -- Astronomers have found the shattered remains of an asteroid that contained huge amounts of water orbiting an exhausted star, or white dwarf. This suggests that the star GD 61 and its... Read more »
Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid
October 7, 2013
Kamuela, HI -- Combining observations from the world’s largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main-belt asteroid (87)... Read more »
