2 space objects are traveling so fast, they might exit the galaxy
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an intriguing signal: They found two objects traveling together through the ...
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Hypervelocity star drags fastest exoplanet through space at 1.2 million mph
To end this confusion, Bennett joined this new team, and they began scouring data collected by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the star-tracking spacecraft Gaia. The team reasoned that if this ...
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Astronomers Track a Runaway Star and Its Planet Traveling at Hyperspeed
Data from the Keck Observatory and ESA’s Gaia satellite indicate that the object is a star, but the team intends to revisit the object in a year to see if it moved in the correct direction and ...
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Keck Observatory helps identify possible triple system in Kuiper Belt
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 ...
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The W. M. Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System: Overview
118, No. 840, February 2006 The W. M. Keck Observatory Laser Guide S... The W. M. Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System: Overview This is the metadata section. Skip to content ...
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The W. M. Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System: Performance Characterization
118, No. 840 (February 2006), pp. 310-318 (9 pages) ABSTRACT The Keck II Telescope is the first 8–10 m class telescope equipped with a laser guide star adaptive optics (LGS AO) system. Under normal ...