By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

Both telescopes, named Keck I and Keck II, measure 10 meters (32.8 feet) across. The mirrors for each telescope are made of 36 lightweight segments that work together similarly to a single mirror.

The twin Keck telescopes sit on the summit of Mauna Kea. They first came online in the 1990s, and they've been churning out incredible revelations about the universe ever since.

Lewis also was presiding over Keck when astrophysicist Andrea Ghez used the telescope to observe the center of the Milky Way and confirmed the presence of a black hole at the galaxy’s heart, for ...

The Keck Observatory's two telescopes are nothing short of engineering marvels, each featuring a 32-foot-wide (10-meter) primary mirror comprising 36 precisely aligned hexagonal segments.

The two telescopes that make up the W. M. Keck Observatory in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, are probably some of the more well known telescopes globally. Keck I and Keck II are both 10-meter (33-foot ...

The Keck II telescope’s AO upgrade also involves a new GPU-based real-time controller (RTC) that analyzes the image coming from the pyramid wavefront sensor then controls the deformable mirror ...

A Keck telescope image of Titan taken on Nov. 7, 2022, showing bright clouds in the Northern ... More Hemisphere at 11 o’clock and 1 o’clock. NASA/STScI/Keck Observatory/Judy Schmidt.

The W. M. Keck Observatory operates twin 10-meter telescopes located on the summit of Mauna Kea. The observatory, made possible by grants >from the W. M. Keck Foundation totaling over $138 million ...

The Keck telescopes and the Milky Way. Image via Flickr The Center of the Galaxy. Since 1995, Andrea has pointed the Keck telescopes toward the center of our galaxy, some 25,000 light years away.

With a telescope it reveals itself to be a brilliant and colorful display of hot gas a couple of dozen light-years across. But our view of it is changing, because it’s eating itself up from the ...