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 ...

With an effective aperture of 8.2 meters (roughly 26.9 feet), its mirror comprises a single piece of polished metal rather than segmented like previous telescopes on this list. Like Keck 1 and 2 ...

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 ...

W. M. Keck Observatory’s laser guide star adaptive optics (LGS AO) system uses a laser to create an artificial star to measure for atmospheric distortions. This results in sharp, high-resolution ...

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

"If you want to take the stairs and walkways from the entrance of the ELT's dome all the way up to the top, you need about 30 minutes." The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the ...

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 ...