The twin Keck telescopes sit on the summit of Mauna Kea. They first came online in the 1990s, and they've been churning out incredible revelations about the universe ever since.

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

image: Diagram. view more . Credit: Stark/Ellis with Caltech Digital Media Center. ... Keck Telescope and Cosmic Lens Resolve Nature and Fate of Early Star-Forming Galaxy (3 of 3) ...

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 success of the Keck II telescope AO upgrade was most recently proven in May by Jason Wang, a Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow at Caltech, when he and his team tested the new ...

The GTC is based on the design of the Keck telescope in that itss main mirror is made up of 36 smaller segments. It's a US$179 million telescope that began operations in 2007, although it wasn't ...

Today, more than 1,000 such discoveries later, Keck has found the majority of all known exoplanets. Black hole in the Milky Way Dust swirls into black hole in Milky Way. Using the Keck II telescope's ...

A Keck telescope image of Titan taken on Nov. 7, 2022, showing bright clouds in the Northern ... More Hemisphere at 11 o’clock and 1 o’clock. NASA/STScI/Keck Observatory/Judy Schmidt.

Oct. 4 -- Astronomers are never satisfied. It isn’t enough to study objects in the distant sky that are so faint they elude even the most powerful telescopes in the world. It just keeps their ...

Lewis also was presiding over Keck when astrophysicist Andrea Ghez used the telescope to observe the center of the Milky Way and confirmed the presence of a black hole at the galaxy’s heart, for ...