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![First Images of Exoplanets With the Webb Telescope and a Look Forward to Keck's New Exoplanet Imager](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Skemer-2-350x285.jpeg?theia_smart_thumbnails_file_version=2)
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](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Fassnacht-crop-1-2.jpg)
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](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/HeadshotJune2020-400x285.webp)
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](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Howard_Andrew-Faculty-PMA-6926_crop-scaled-3-400x285.jpg?theia_smart_thumbnails_file_version=2)
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](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/huber-2.jpg)
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](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/coil-head-shot-new-2-400x285.jpg?theia_smart_thumbnails_file_version=2)
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](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Konopacky-headshot-2.jpg)
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](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Christiansen-Combo-2.jpg)
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](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TED2-2.jpg)
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](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Marc-Kassis-2.jpg)
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](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Jensen-Clem_photo_2021-2.jpeg)
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](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Jessica-Lu-400x285.jpeg)
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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