Cosmic Videos
Lifting the Fog on the Early Universe
Just after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with a fog of cool hydrogen gas. When the first stars …
Exploring Galaxies and Beyond
Galaxies turn gas into giant collections of stars that light up the universe. This simple statement of what happens with …
Cosmic Fireworks
Our dynamic universe is adorned by cosmic fireworks: energetic and ephemeral beacons of light that are a million (nova) to …
Decoding the Contents of Distant Galaxies
Our Milky Way is one of countless galaxies in the universe. Understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies remains one …
Using Keck to Explore Planetary Systems Orbiting Nearby Stars
The search for extrasolar planets has uncovered a dizzying array of planetary systems. We have found new planet types — …
Searching for Earth-like Planets with the Keck Planet Finder
The search for extrasolar planets has uncovered a dizzying array of planetary systems. We have found new planet types — …
Kepler, TESS, and Keck Observatory – Driving Our Understanding of Exoplanetary Systems
Launched in 2009, NASA’s Kepler revolutionized our understanding of other worlds by discovering thousands of exoplanet systems. 10 years after …
Planet Nine from Outer Space
Five years ago, Dr. Brown and his team proposed that unexpected perturbations to the most distant known objects in our …
SCALES: A New Keck Instrument for Imaging Exoplanets at 1000 Wavelengths Simultaneously
Exoplanets are a class of astrophysical objects, like stars and galaxies, where a wide range of detection and characterization methods …
A Night in the Life of Keck Observatory
You’ve seen the discoveries, but how are they made? In this presentation, we follow the process of Keck Observatory’s science, …
Liger: A next-generation instrument for Keck Adaptive Optics
Keck Adaptive Optics (AO) has been revolutionary in making profound discoveries about our Universe like the first-ever directly-imaged extrasolar planets …
Dwarf Galaxies, Dark Matter, and the Milky Way
Professor, Astronomy Department, Yale UniversityDozens of small galaxies have been discovered orbiting our Milky Way galaxy over the past decade …
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