Cosmic Videos
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 …
Towards the Direct Imaging of Habitable Exoplanets with Extremely Large Telescopes
Fifty-three years ago, 600 million people watched the Apollo 11 astronauts take the first human steps on another world. In …
Hunting for Black Holes in the Milky Way Galaxy
The population of stellar mass black holes in the Milky Way is almost entirely unexplored. Only a dozen black holes …
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