The ability to retrofit the current Keck secondary mirror with a higher-density 3000-4000 actuator ... Northern Hemisphere location atop Maunkea Hawaii. Picture 1: Twin telescopes Keck I and Keck 2 ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Today, the term "telescope" describes a wide range of instruments using lenses, mirrors, and/or digital ... Foundation (SALT), Rick Peterson/WMKO (Keck), Germini Observatory/AURA (Gemini), CARMA ...

This configuration closely mirrors predictions for the fate of ... Follow-up observations using the Keck II telescope in ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

When it comes to telescope mirrors, larger is generally better. The larger your main mirror, the more light you can capture and the more faint and distant objects you can see. The problem is that ...

Cunningham’s observational campaign continues, and he hopes soon to have a better reconstruction of the nebula using the Keck telescope. He has also proposed to study this remnant with the James ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected. If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks ...

The paper will incorporate data from the DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) from NASA's Keck Observatory Archive, as well as data from the Gemini and Subaru telescopes. "NASA's ...

Psychosocial stress during pregnancy could lead to higher blood pressure during the first year postpartum according to research from Keck School of Medicine of USC. The study, published in ...

How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question. Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a ...