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

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 Keck Cosmic Reionization Mapper (KCRM) at the W.M. Keck Observatory atop Maunakea summit in Hawaiʻi, will provide detailed maps of gas around dying stars and other cosmic objects, ...

Keck Observatory telescopes are shown on Mauna Kea. The controversy led to the creation of the state’s Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority, which was enacted in 2022 and tasked with ...

When Hilton Lewis began working at the W. M. Keck Observatory in 1986, astronomy was a very different field. Lewis, who is retiring from Keck at the end of the month after 37 years, the last nine ...

Importantly, Andromeda XII lies significantly behind M31 as viewed from the Milky Way, ... one of two 10-meter telescopes the W. M. Keck Observatory operates on the summit of Mauna Kea, ...

Dec. 19—Rich Matsuda's work has always taken him toward the sky. Rich Matsuda's work has always taken him toward the sky. The Punahou School graduate was trained as an electrical engineer and ...

Using the 100-inch Hooker Telescope and photographic glass plates at Mount Wilson Observatory, he discovered a variable star within M31. Hubble used that star to show M31 lies far outside the ...

Dots are color coded according to their velocity relative to the Milky Way, as measured using the DEIMOS spectrograph on the Keck II telescope. The center of M31 is moving towards us at 300 km/s, ...

After spotting a potential candidate with the 2.4-meter Hubble Space Telescope, the team of astronomers pointed the 10-meter Keck II telescope, operated by the W. M. Keck Observatory, to witness the ...

Dec. 19—Rich Matsuda's work has always taken him toward the sky. Rich Matsuda's work has always taken him toward the sky. The Punahou School graduate was trained as an electrical engineer and ...