Events
Events
Upcoming
Intergalactic Immigration
05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
Guest Speaker Jessica Werk Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy University of Washington The majority of atoms in the Milky Way, including on our planet, did not originate within our own galaxy and were likely fused in stars from long-dead satellite galaxies. These atoms have been cycling over vast scales for billions of years, swept up […]
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NASA Spacecraft New Horizons Pluto Flyby: Special Talk by NASA Scientist Eliot Young
07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
Just hours before their observing run at Keck Observatory will start, NASA scientists Eliot Young and his team will give a talk in the Hualalai Conference room at Keck Observatory’s headquarters in Waimea. Join us at 7:00p to learn about the science of Pluto, the Kuiper belt, dwarf planets and more. At 1:49am the next […]
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Astronomy Talk: What Wonderful Worlds – Exploring our Solar System
07:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Knowledge about our own Solar System has increased by leaps and bounds over the past few decades due to a combination of spacecraft missions and technical advancements at the W. M. Keck Observatory and other telescopes. Imke de Pater, Professor of Astronomy at University of California, Berkeley will start with a short overview of the […]
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Astronomy Talk: Extreme Stars at the Center of the Galaxy
07:00 pm - 08:00 pm
The Stellar Zoo at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy would be quite unfamiliar to a terrestrial visitor. Not only do the types of stars differ in many ways from what we can see in our serene nighttime sky from Earth, but the stars at the galactic center are also not behaving like the […]
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Astronomy Talk: America’s Space Program – NASA’s Roadmap to Tomorrow’s Missions
07:00 pm - 08:00 pm
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will discuss America’s space program and the challenges the agency faces for the missions of tomorrow. Using a stepping stone approach that builds on the capabilities of our unique orbiting laboratory – the International Space Station – the growing abilities of commercial providers to reach space, and a new rocket and […]
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Waimea Solar System Walk
10:00 am - 02:00 pm
The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and W. M. Keck Observatory are sponsoring the Waimea Solar System Walk from 10am-2pm on November 8th. The walk turns Waimea into a scale model of our solar system with the sun at Keck Observatory and Pluto/dwarf planets at CFHT. The remaining booths are spaced at the distance they would be found […]
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Cosmic Cup: Hawaiian-Style Polo Match Fundraiser
02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Please join us for a festive, Hawaiian-style polo afternoon and support the frontiers of discovery! The match is being held in conjunction with the Mauna Kea Polo Club. Gates Open at NoonMatch starts at 2pm FRIENDS:$250 per personCatered Luncheon at 1pmRSVP by November 17Call: 808.881.3854jcampbell@keck.hawaii.edu FANS:General Admission $5 per personBring a picnic lunch, umbrella and […]
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Cosmic Movie: Particle Fever
06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
DOORS OPEN AT 6:00p MOVIE STARTS AT 6:30p For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history […]
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Astronomy Talk: A Deep View on the Early Universe, Extreme Makeovers and Overweight Galaxies
07:00 pm - 08:00 pm
As the building blocks of the Universe, galaxies are massive structures that can contain trillions of stars. Galaxies in today’s Universe show a striking diversity among their properties, with large variations in their appearance, age, size, weight, and stellar birth rate. Despite this diversity, galaxies can broadly be divided into two types: low-mass spiral galaxies […]
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Live From Keck Observatory: The Supermassive Black Hole
09:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Join us for a rare look into an observing run at the W. M. Keck Observatory, home of the two largest and most scientifically productive telescopes on Earth. Both of the mighty 10-meter Keck Observatory telescopes will be steered by UCLA’s Andrea Ghez and her team of observers from the UCLA Galactic Center Group for two […]
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Astronomy Talk: First Light in the Universe, The End of the Cosmic Dark Ages
07:00 pm - 08:00 pm
In the first several hundred million years after the Big Bang, the Universe was too hot for stars and galaxies to form. As the Universe cooled and its expansion slowed, gravity caused the first stars to collapse and re-light the Universe. Most theories suggest these first stars were unusual super-massive objects that evolved quickly and […]
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