Sentences with phrase «kea observatories»

The Institute for Astronomy (IfA) was founded at the University of Hawai`i (UH) in 1967 to manage the Haleakalā Observatories on Maui and the Mauna Kea Observatories on the Big Island, and to carry out its own program of fundamental research into the stars, planets, and galaxies that make up our Universe.

Batygin and Brown are using the Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii to try to do just that.

The beautiful island of Hawaii offers many special destinations to explore: Red Road, Kalapana, Exotic Farmers Markets, Volcanoes National Park, Waipio Valley, Lava Tubes, Tunnels and Caves, Mauna Kea Observatory.

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If it is in the most distant part of its orbit, the world's largest telescopes — such as the twin 10 - meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Subaru Telescope, all on Mauna Kea in Hawaii — will be needed to see it.

The team observed CI Tau dozens of times from the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas; the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.; the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and the Keck II telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii; and the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 2.1 - and 4 - meter telescopes in southern Arizona.

In June, astronomers unveiled the first images from the new Gemini North Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Pictured here: A lenticular cloud above Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano, site of the Gemini Observatory.

The agency's astrophysics space observatories — Kepler, Swift, Spitzer, Chandra — and the ground - based Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii — also will be tracking the event.

The scientists made a pilgrimage to the huge Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

«If anyone would offer us the opportunity to put a submillimeter array on the moon, we would grab it,» says Tom Phillips, the director of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

[1] The team used data from the UVES spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile (to determine the properties of the star accurately), the Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph (PFS) at the 6.5 - metre Magellan II Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, the HIRES spectrograph mounted on the Keck 10 - metre telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii as well as extensive previous data from HARPS (the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) at ESO's 3.6 - metre telescope in Chile (gathered through the M dwarf programme led by X. Bonfils and M. Mayor 2003 - 2010.

Mauna Kea, home to the world's largest astronomical observatory, is a dormant volcano, but don't worry — the red glow at right is just car brake lights.

* The data were obtained by ALMA; the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter - wave Astronomy: a millimeter array consisting of 23 parabola antennas in California; the Submillimeter Array a submillimeter array consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a supplement.

If you're not in Philly, you can still moonlight as an astronomer during a global four - day celebration, 100 Hours of Astronomy (April 2 — 5), featuring a 24 - hour star party with free telescope viewings in public spaces worldwide and live Webcasts from top observatories like Mauna Kea and Palomar.

To resolve the discrepancy, the team scrutinized the galaxy with the Hubble Space Telescope, the W.M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory, the latter two on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

The European Southern Observatory has begun construction of its European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) with a 39 - meter mirror at Cerro Armazones in northern Chile, and a group of institutions from China, India, Japan, and the United States has started building the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) at Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

The largest astronomical observatory in the world sits on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

The scientists also used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and the MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona.

Several major observatories were also watching for signs of impact, including the Keck and Canada - France - Hawaii telescopes on Mauna Kea, neither of which saw a plume.

The two - telescope visible - light and infrared W. M. Keck Observatory, also on Mauna Kea, provided the spectra for the galaxies identified by Subaru.

The team led by Dr. Andrew Howard (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa) then measured the mass of the planet with the Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, in Hawaii.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — A team led by astronomers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, recently used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to observe and measure a rare class of «active... Read more»

MAUNA KEA, HI — A primitive ocean on Mars once held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who measured signatures of water in the planet's atmosphere using the most powerful telescopes on Earth including the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

The East Asian Observatory operates the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope located near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Mauna Kea, HI — California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers using data gathered at the W. M. Keck Observatory have developed a new technique for planetary scientists that could provide insight into how many water planets like Earth exist within our universe.

«Keck Observatory operates the only telescopes in the world powerful enough to have made this observation,» Kirby said of the twin, ten - meter telescopes housed on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — An international team of researchers analyzing decades of observations from many facilities — including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on Haleakala and NASA's Swift satellite — has discovered what appears to be a black hole booted from its host galaKEA, Hawaii — An international team of researchers analyzing decades of observations from many facilities — including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on Haleakala and NASA's Swift satellite — has discovered what appears to be a black hole booted from its host galaKea, the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on Haleakala and NASA's Swift satellite — has discovered what appears to be a black hole booted from its host galaxy.

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Mauna Kea, HI — A team of scientists led by astronomers at the University of California, Riverside has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory to uncover the long - suspected underlying population of galaxies that produced the bulk of new stars during the universe's early years.

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — A new study from the Keck Interferometer, a former NASA project that combined the power of the twin W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, has brought exciting news to planet hunteKEA, Hawaii — A new study from the Keck Interferometer, a former NASA project that combined the power of the twin W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, has brought exciting news to planet hunteKea, Hawaii, has brought exciting news to planet hunters.

Through NASA's partnership in the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the team observed the comet at infrared wavelengths a few days after Lovejoy passed its perihelion — or closest point to the sun.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — A team led by astronomers from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, recently used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to observe and measure a rare class of «active asteroids» that spontaneously emit dust and have been confounding scientists for years.

Since 1995, Ghez has been using the Keck Observatory, which sits atop Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea volcano, to study the rotational center of the Milky Way and the movement of 200 stars close to this galactic center.

I have been working on two surveys using the 48 - inch Palomar Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory and 8.2 - m Subaru telescope telescope on Mauna Kea to search for the most distant objects in the solar system.

The observations were made with the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, with NASA funding.

Research with the NASA - funded Keck Interferometer, a former NASA key science project that combined the power of the twin telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, shows that mature, sun - like stars appear to be, on average, not all that dusty.

MAUNA KEA, HI — Scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory and Pan-STARRS1 telescopes on Hawaii have discovered a star that breaks the galactic speed record, traveling with a velocity of about... Read more»

MAUNA KEA, HI — A detailed study of the motions of different stellar populations in Andromeda galaxy by UC Santa Cruz scientists using W. M. Keck Observatory data has found striking differences from our own Milky Way, suggesting a more violent history of mergers with smaller galaxies in Andromeda's recent past.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii — The Kepler team today reports on four years of observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory targeting Kepler's exoplanet systems, announcing results this week at the American... Read more»

In particular, he has constructed spectrographs for use at McDonald Observatory and at observatories on Hawaii's Mauna Kea.

MAUNA KEA, HI — A detailed study of the motions of different stellar populations in Andromeda galaxy by UC Santa Cruz scientists using W. M. Keck Observatory data has found striking differences... Read more»

«We look forward to beginning construction and becoming a neighbor of the outstanding observatories on Mauna Kea.»

Since 1995, Ghez has used the Keck Observatory, which sits atop Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea volcano, to study the rotational center of the Milky Way and the movement of thousands of stars close to this galactic center.

The James - Clerk - Maxwell Observatory is established near the summit of Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii.

This successful test at the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea makes the linked telescopes, which together are called the Keck Interferometer, the world's most powerful optical telescope system.

Our students have access to fantastic facilities like the Mont - Mégantic Observatory, where they can get their hands dirty working with real equipment before they go off to remote locations like the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii or the Andes Mountains in Chile.

Our efforts in this area include exciting collaborations and visits to the worlds largest telescopes atop Mauna Kea Hawaii, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Munich and Chile, at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

It was a clear night on the summit of Mauna Kea at Keck Observatory on the 20th March.

Presenters and speakers at the summit include Thirty Meter Telescope Associate Project Manager Ravinder Bhatia, TMT Hawaii Community Affairs Sandra Dawson; Imiloa Astronomy Center Executive Director Ka'iu Kimura; «Imiloa Astronomy Center Navigator in Residence Kalepa Babayan; Office of Mauna Kea Management Executive Director Stephanie Nagata; Janet Babb, USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory; Dr. Saeko Hayashi, Subaru Telescope; Peter Michaud, Gemini Telescope; Dr. JD Armstrong, University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy; Dr. Rob Wright, Hawaii Space Grant Consortium,; Dr. Paul Coleman, Institute for Astronomy, Waiakea High School Science teachers Dale Olive and Tom Murphy; and Pisces (Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems Test Operations Manager) Christian Andersen.

MAUNA KEA, HI — Scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory and Pan-STARRS1 telescopes on Hawaii have discovered a star that breaks the galactic speed record, traveling with a velocity of about 1,200 kilometers per second or 2.7 million miles per hour.