Posted on 11:23 pm, Monday, January 13, 2014. Tags: keck observatory, taft armandroff
MEDIA RELEASE The Board of Directors of the W. M. Keck Observatory has announced Taft Armandroff, executive director of the world’s premier ground-based astronomical observatory, will step down June 1 to become a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and director of its McDonald Observatory. Armandroff joined Keck Observatory in June 2006. During […]
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Posted on 3:23 am, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Tags: keck observatory, legislature 2013, taft armandroff
MEDIA RELEASE The Hawaii State Senate has recognized and commemorated the 20th anniversary of the W.M. Keck Observatory, located at the summit of Mauna Kea, during its Session. The telescopes, known as Keck I and Keck II, are located in the twin domes of the W.M. Keck Observatory and have been involved in the 20 […]
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Posted on 12:30 am, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Tags: cyndi atherton, keck observatory, peter wizinowich, taft armandroff
Wizinowich: ‘Ever since Galileo, astronomers have been building bigger telescopes to collect more light to observe more distant objects’
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Posted on 1:03 am, Friday, October 5, 2012. Tags: andrea ghez, ethan tweedie, keck telescopes, leo meyer, taft armandroff
‘Einstein is in every iPhone, because the GPS system would not work without his theory’
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Posted on 11:30 pm, Tuesday, October 4, 2011. Tags: brian schmidt, keck observatory, nobel prize, taft armandroff
‘Every test we have made has come out perfectly in line with Einstein’s original cosmological constant in 1917’
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Posted on 6:56 am, Monday, August 29, 2011. Tags: keck observatory, pinwheel galaxy, supernova, taft armandroff
MEDIA RELEASE A once-in-a-lifetime nearby stellar explosion now unfolding in a neighboring galaxy has astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory scrambling to ask questions that can’t be answered at any other ground-based telescope in the world. The first big question: What causes this pivotally important type of stellar cataclysm? Observing this spectacular supernova, dubbed […]
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Posted on 4:19 am, Thursday, August 12, 2010. Tags: keck observatory, laser guide star adaptive optics, national science foundation, taft armandroff
MEDIA RELEASE The W. M. Keck Observatory has received a $1.72 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design the first near-infrared tip-tilt sensor used to correct for the turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere. The improvements will increase the sensitivity and resolution of the Keck I telescope, which already allows astronomers to resolve in […]
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