Cosmic Videos
NASA: Exploring the Secrets of the Universe and Improving Life on Earth
Ever since NASA was established in 1958, expanding human knowledge of Earth, atmospheric phenomena, and space has been NASA’s priority …
Intergalactic Immigration
The majority of atoms in the Milky Way, including on our planet, did not originate within our own galaxy and …
First Images of Exoplanets With the Webb Telescope and a Look Forward to Keck’s New Exoplanet Imager
This past summer at UC Santa Cruz, an international team of astronomers assembled to produce the first images and spectra …
Getting a Sharp Look at Dark Matter
Look around you. Everything that is familiar to us, what we would call “normal” matter, makes up just a tiny …
Searching for Distant Galaxies Using Keck and JWST
We’ll go on a journey of discovery that started with a small blip in Hubble images, became a fully-confirmed galaxy …
Discovering Planets With the Keck Planet Finder
Keck Observatory’s newest instrument is the Keck Planet Finder (KPF), a spectrometer that will allow for the discovery of smaller …
The Sound of Stars
Although we cannot hear it with our own ears, the Sun and other stars in the sky have been performing …
Unveiling Outflowing Galactic Winds with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager
In this talk, research will be presented that Dr. Coil and collaborators have been leading on extremely fast outflowing galactic …
Forming Stars, Planets, and Scientists: Keck’s Transformative Role in Both Science and Education
The birth of stars is a complex and dynamic process, one that leads eventually to the formation of planets and …
Truth is Stranger than (Science) Fiction
We speculated about the existence of planets orbiting other Suns for hundreds, if not thousands of years before their existence …
Origin of Earth’s Water
No one knows if our solar system, with a planet possessing the necessary ingredients for life within our Sun’s habitable …
The Status of Major Instrumentation Projects at Keck Observatory
In this talk, Dr. Kassis provides a status update on instrument development activities for projects delivering to the observatory. This …
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