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Internship Program Wraps with Student Symposium at ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center
Hilo, Hawaii (August 2nd, 2006) – The ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo, which is dedicated to showcasing astronomy and culture in Hawaii, was an ideal venue for the 2006 Akamai Observatory Internship Symposium on Friday, July 28. In the center’s planetarium, usually a venue for celestial star shows, 13 stars from the educational universe were […]
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Keck telescope captures Jupiter’s Red Spot Jr. as it zips past planet’s Great Red Spot
Kamuela, Hawaii (July 29th, 2006) – Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii this month snapped high-resolution near-infrared images of the Great Red Spot, a persistent, high-pressure storm on Jupiter, as a smaller storm, Red Spot Jr., breezed by it on its race around the planet. The […]
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Three-telescope interferometer shows patchy red giants are common fate of stars like Sun
Kamuela, Hawaii (July 18th, 2006) – As astronomers increasingly link two telescopes as interferometers to reveal greater detail of distant stars, a Keck Observatory astronomer is showing the power of linking three or even more telescopes together. Astronomer Sam Ragland used Arizona’s Infrared-Optical Telescope Array (IOTA) of three linked telescopes to obtain unprecedented detail of […]
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Keck Observatory video wins 2006 Telly Award for excellence in video production
Kamuela, Hawaii (July 12th, 2006) – An educational video produced by the W. M. Keck Observatory and the production company Earlybird & Friends has won a Silver Telly Award, the highest of the Telly Awards given annually to honor outstanding local, regional and cable TV programs, films and commercials. The video, titled “The Kecks of […]
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NSF Partnership Funds Instrument for World’s Largest Telescope
Kamuela, Hawaii (May 25th, 2006) The W. M. Keck Observatory and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that $5 million of NSF funding has been granted over the next four years to design and construct a major new capability for the Keck I telescope. It was also announced that a matching gift of $5 million […]
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Taft E. Armandroff Appointed Director for W. M. Keck Observatory
Kamuela (February 2nd, 2006) The Board of the California Association for Research in Astronomy (CARA), the governing body for the W. M. Keck Observatory, is pleased to announce that Dr. Taft E. Armandroff has been appointed director of the Observatory, effective July 1, 2006. He will succeed Dr. Frederic H. Chaffee, who will end his […]
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Trojan Asteroid Patroclus: Comet in Disguise?
Mauna Kea (February 1st, 2006) Like the hollow wooden horse hiding Greek warriors in the Trojan War, could an entire population of asteroids be masquerading as comets? Observations of the binary Trojan asteroid (617) Patroclus taken at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea have astronomers wondering if asteroids caught in the gravitationally neutral […]
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Spend The Summer Among the Stars: Internships Available at Observatories on Mauna Kea
Kamuela (January 20th, 2006) The Akamai Observatory Internship Program offers remarkable opportunities to participate in the exciting world of modern astronomy via paid summer internships at Observatories on Mauna Kea. The Akamai program pairs undergraduate university and community college students with engineers and astronomers at Hawaii Island observatories for eight-week project-based internships. The program begins […]
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`OHANA to Link Seven Mauna Kea Telescopes
Mauna Kea (January 13th, 2006) A team of scientists in partnership with the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have successfully passed the first test in a project that will link the seven largest telescopes on Mauna Kea together to create a gigantic imaging instrument nearly one half mile (800 meters) in diameter. The ‘OHANA […]
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Scientists See Better, Fainter with New Keck Laser Guide Star
Washington D. C. (January 10th, 2006) A new sodium laser is giving 50 times more sky coverage to the atmospheric-correcting technology known as adaptive optics on the Keck II telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The laser lets scientists explore most of the sky with adaptive optics and gives them the capability to study objects that […]
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