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Astronomy Talk: He Lani Ko Luna — A Sky Above
Chad Kālepa Baybayan is captain and navigator of the Hawaiian deep-sea voyaging canoes Hōkūle’a, Hawai’iloa, and Hōkūalaka’i. Baybayan will give a fascinating presentation on the history of oceanic wayfinding in the Pacific and the efforts to revitalize this once-dynamic maritime culture by exploring the symbiotic relationship between land, sea, sky, and people. He currently serves […]
Read More >Keck Week Video #18: Census of Discovery and the Future of Keck Observatory
March 16, 2013 marked the 20th anniversary of the very first science observations made by the Keck I telescope on Mauna Kea. That event also represented the beginning of a stream of amazing discoveries from Keck Observatory that has indelibly shaped our understanding of the Universe. Armed with the revolutionary concept of building a large […]
Read More >Keck Week Video #17: The Early Universe As Seen By Keck
Captured at Keck Week this past March, this presentation by Caltech’s Dr. Richard Ellis describes how he and other scientists employ Keck’s powerful instruments to determine with remarkable accuracy the age of light from distant objects that originated in the first 7 percent of the Universe’s existence. (Please be patient while video loads).
Read More >Keck Week Video #16: Cosmic Explosions: Gamma Ray Bursts and Other Transient Events from Keck
Gamma ray bursts are the brightest electromagnetic events known in the Universe. They emit a narrow beam of intense radiation during a supernova when a massive star collapses into a neutron star or a black hole. Dr. Shrinivas Kulkarni from the California Institute of Technology gives an illuminating presentation on how spectroscopy from Keck Observatory […]
Read More >Keck Week Video #15: Hunting for Protoplanets with Keck Observatory
Caltech’s Dr. Geoff Blake discusses how his team uses Keck Observatory’s superior resolution to detect: planets in other solar systems; stars with disks that could become planets; and measure the disk inventory for water and other compounds needed for life. (Please be patient while video loads)
Read More >Keck Week Video #14: Keck Observatory and NASA’s Space Missions Reveal the Secrets of the Cosmos
The partnership between NASA and Keck Observatory has done much to expand our understanding of the Universe. NASA’s Dr. Charles Beichman describes what Keck Observatory’s contributions have meant to NASA programs and why NASA continues to value its partnership in Keck Observatory even in difficult budgetary periods. (Please be patient while video loads)
Read More >Keck Week Video #13: Between the Galaxies: The Intergalactic Medium
Xavier Prochaska, from UC Santa Cruz, explains how his team employs the “science of silhouette” to discover and characterize the intergalactic medium and the large-scale structure of the cosmos. (Please be patient while video loads)
Read More >Keck Week Video #12: Surveying the Population of Galaxies with Keck
UC Santa Cruz’s Sandra Faber uses the mighty Keck telescopes to travel back to within 400 million years of the Big Bang in her work surveying the galactic population of the Universe. (Please be patient while video loads)
Read More >Keck Week Video #11: Mergers and Acquisitions by the Andromeda Galaxy as Documented by Keck
Raja Guhathakurta, of the University of California at Santa Cruz, has a deep passion for advancing astronomy research and education. A professor in one of America’s finest astronomy programs, Raja makes complex and technical details of the cosmos intimate and understandable with humor, striking images and beautiful computer animations. In this recorded presentation at Keck […]
Read More >Keck Week Video #10: The Milky Way’s Entourage
This talk presents a new class of dark matter dominated small galaxies found in the neighborhood of our Milky Way Galaxy. Unlike the low luminosity of the objects she studies, Dr. Marla Geha from Yale University shines brightly in this talk describing research in action at the W. M. Keck Observatory. Revealed by the potent […]
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