the Keck reflector, now being constructed on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. It is not necessary to have a large telescope in order to take a real interest in the night sky. Binoculars will show a great ...

At UC Santa Cruz, she is interested in working with Professor Foley and through observational astronomy, expanding her research to look for visual counterparts to gravitational waves using telescopes ...

A new strange UFO-like galaxy has been found by the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini North telescope. The researchers have been observing the galaxy for some time now and what they have found is ...

A STS-125 crewmember aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the two spacecraft continued their relative separation on May 19, 2009 ...

Then came a new clue. In 2017, scientists using the Keck telescope made detailed maps of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. They found something unexpected: a massive warm zone far from the poles.

Quite a different temperature-gradient pattern In 2021, however, O’Donoghue and colleagues observed quite a different temperature-gradient pattern in near-infrared spectral data recorded by the ...

Since it was launched and started operations in 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered many secrets and the beauty of the universe. The telescope may well have outdone itself by ...

"The instrument is, so to speak, the heart of the solar telescope, which is now finally beating at its final destination." The world's largest solar telescope has gained a powerful new "eye" that ...

John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle, which delivered Hubble to space 35 years ago, and it's no secret why ...