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New Catalog Showcases a Diverse Exoplanet Landscape with Strange, Exotic Worlds
A new, robust catalog is out featuring 126 confirmed and candidate exoplanets discovered with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration …
Earth Twin or Evil Twin
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – The discovery of a planet similar in size to Venus that’s orbiting a star in the neighborhood …
Faintest Known Star System Orbiting the Milky Way Discovered from Hawaiʻi
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – A team of astronomers led by the University of Victoria and Yale University has detected an ancient …
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![Hawaiʻi Telescopes Help Uncover Origins of Castaway Gamma-Ray Bursts](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/noirlab2218a-300x169-1.jpeg)
Hawaiʻi Telescopes Help Uncover Origins of Castaway Gamma-Ray Bursts
Maunakea Observatories Aid in Revealing That Seemingly Lonely Bursts Came From Previously Undiscovered Galaxies in the Early Universe A number …
![Director's Message: Maunakea's Future](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/20210126_ARH-6497.jpg)
Director’s Message: Maunakea’s Future
Aloha, Today, Governor David Ige signed HB2024 into law, establishing a new governance and management structure for Maunakea by creating …
![W. M. Keck Observatory’s Chief of Technical Development Peter Wizinowich Wins 2022 Joseph Weber Award](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Peter-Wizinowich-1.jpg)
W. M. Keck Observatory’s Chief of Technical Development Peter Wizinowich Wins 2022 Joseph Weber Award
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Congratulations to Dr. Peter Wizinowich, chief of technical development at W. M. Keck Observatory, who has been …
![Making the Nearly Invisible, Visible: Astronomers Trace the Gas that Breathes Life into Galaxies](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/DLA-Lensed-Galaxy-Data-Image.jpg)
Making the Nearly Invisible, Visible: Astronomers Trace the Gas that Breathes Life into Galaxies
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi— Astronomers have developed a groundbreaking new method of seeing the massive, but barely visible gas tanks that fuel …
!["Black Widow" Star Devours Its Rapidly Circling Companion](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Black_Widow_Pulsar_persp-WEB.original.jpg)
“Black Widow” Star Devours Its Rapidly Circling Companion
Finding Represents the Shortest-period Black Widow Binary Found to Date Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – In black widow star systems, a rapidly …
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Lānaʻi High School Students Win Telescope Time on Maunakea, Haleakalā
An inaugural cohort of Maunakea Scholars at Lānaʻi High School have won highly competitive, professional observing time at some of …
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Astronomers Discover Widest Separation of Brown Dwarf Pair to Date
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – A team of astronomers has discovered a rare pair of brown dwarfs that has the widest separation …
![Surprisingly High Fraction of Dead Galaxies Found in Ancient Galactic City](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/MAGAZ3NE-J0959-Galaxies.jpg)
Surprisingly High Fraction of Dead Galaxies Found in Ancient Galactic City
Why Cluster’s Galaxies are Unlike Those in All the Other Known Protoclusters is a Mystery, says UC Riverside-led Team Maunakea, …
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Saturn’s High-altitude Winds Generate Extraordinary Aurorae, Study Finds
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fueling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn. A University of Leicester-led …
![Puffy Planets Lose Atmospheres, Become Super-Earths](https://www.keckobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/mini-neptune-e1718751139236.jpg)
Puffy Planets Lose Atmospheres, Become Super-Earths
Finding Represents First Detections of Atmospheric Loss in “Mini-Neptunes” Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers have identified two different cases of “mini-Neptune” …
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Newly-Found Planets On The Edge Of Destruction
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Three newly-discovered planets have been orbiting dangerously close to stars nearing the end of their lives. Out …
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Astronomers Witness a Dying Star Reach Its Explosive End
Two Hawai’i Telescopes Capture a Massive Star Moments Before Going Supernova Haleakalā and Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – For the very first …