News from Keck Observatory

September 23, 2013

Keck Week Video #18: Census of Discovery and the Future of Keck Observatory
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Working Retreat Rewards All
What did a Waimea Middle School chicken say to the Black
Hole? The black hole will never know – sound can’t travel in space.
But last week, the two got as close to communicating as ever
before
Keck Week Video #17: The Early Universe As Seen By Keck
Captured at Keck Week this past March, this presentation by Caltech’s Dr. Richard Ellis describes how he and other scientists employ Keck’s powerful instruments to determine with remarkable
Keck Week Video #16: Cosmic Explosions: Gamma Ray Bursts and Other Transient Events from Keck
Gamma ray bursts are the brightest electromagnetic events known in the Universe. They emit a narrow beam of intense radiation during a supernova when a massive star collapses into a neutron star or a
Keck Week Video #15: Hunting for Protoplanets with Keck Observatory
Caltech’s Dr. Geoff Blake discusses how his team uses Keck Observatory’s superior resolution to detect: planets in other solar systems; stars with disks that could become planets; and measure the
Keck Week Video #14: Keck Observatory and NASA’s Space Missions Reveal the Secrets of the Cosmos
The partnership between NASA and Keck Observatory has done much to expand our understanding of the Universe. NASA’s Dr. Charles Beichman describes what Keck Observatory’s contributions have meant to
Keck Week Video #13: Between the Galaxies: The Intergalactic Medium
Xavier Prochaska, from UC Santa Cruz, explains how his team employs the “science of silhouette” to discover and characterize the intergalactic medium and the large-scale structure of the cosmos.(
Keck Week Video #12: Surveying the Population of Galaxies with Keck
UC Santa Cruz’s Sandra Faber uses the mighty Keck telescopes to travel back to within 400 million years of the Big Bang in her work surveying the galactic population of the Universe. (Please be
Keck Week Video #11: Mergers and Acquisitions by the Andromeda Galaxy as Documented by Keck
Raja Guhathakurta, of the University of California at Santa Cruz, has a deep passion for advancing astronomy research and education. A professor in one of America’s finest astronomy programs, Raja