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Astronomers Using Keck Observatory Discover Rain Falling from Saturn’s rings
April 9, 2013
Kamuela, HI -- NASA funded observations on the W. M. Keck Observatory with analysis led by the University of Leicester, England tracked the "rain" of charged water particles into the atmosphere of... Read more »
NASA and Caltech Astronomers Find Potential Energy Supply For Life on Europa
April 4, 2013
KAMUELA, HI – Observations of Europa from the W. M. Keck Observatory help NASA and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers go one step further in demonstrating life may be possible... Read more »
Astronomers Detect Water in Atmosphere of Distant Planet
March 14, 2013
KAMUELA, HI – A team of international scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size planet beyond our Solar... Read more »
Astronomers Open Window Into Europa’s Ocean
March 5, 2013
KAMUELA, Hawaii—With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a... Read more »
Keck Observatory Completes $4 Million Adaptive Optics Fund
March 5, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii – The W. M. Keck Observatory has successfully completed a $4 million campaign that will give astronomers the most detailed Adaptive Optics images of the cosmos ever created by... Read more »
Surprise: Earth-sized Planets Are Common
January 9, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii – A team of astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Hawaii at Manoa has found that 17 percent of all sun-like stars have planets one to two... Read more »
Surprise Pancake Structure in Andromeda Galaxy Upends Galactic Understanding
January 2, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii – Astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii and W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii have been amazed to find a group of dwarf galaxies moving in... Read more »
FOUND: One Planet Orbiting Sun-like Star. Only Twelve Light Years Away. May Be Habitable.
December 18, 2012
An international team of astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory and other telescopes, has discovered that Tau Ceti, one of the closest and most Sun-like stars, may host five planets – with... Read more »
Astronomers Go Infrared to Map Brightest Galaxies in Universe
December 14, 2012
Kamuela, Hawaii – A group of astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the U.S. Mainland, Canada, and Europe recently used the twin telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea,... Read more »
Keck Week 2013 Commemorates W.M. Keck Observatory’s 20th Anniversary
December 11, 2012
Kamuela, Hawaii– This Spring, the W. M. Keck Observatory is throwing a weeklong party called Keck Week 2013, to celebrate the observatory’s first twenty years of high-impact, game-changing... Read more »
