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 ...

Both telescopes, named Keck I and Keck II, measure 10 meters (32.8 feet) across. The mirrors for each telescope are made of 36 lightweight segments that work together similarly to a single mirror.

Its 129-foot (39.3 meter) mirror will be more than four times the size of one Keck telescope. ... In 2015, the observatory plans to put in a new laser system for the Keck II telescope.

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 ...

Scientists using the Keck II telescope in Hawaii say the surface of Saturn's moon Titan appears dry and not awash in oceans of liquid hydrocarbons as is commonly believed.

After spotting a potential candidate with the 2.4-meter Hubble Space Telescope, the team of astronomers pointed the 10-meter Keck II telescope, operated by the W. M. Keck Observatory, to witness the ...

When the Keck team was first informed of the discovery a few months ago, de Pater carefully processed data they had obtained in August with the infrared camera on the 10-meter Keck II telescope.

Imagery from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the ground-based Keck II telescope in Hawaii has confirmed more evidence of active weather on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Researchers said ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope in Hawaii have observed something remarkable on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. For the first time, researchers witnessed ...

Astronomers believe they've glimpsed light from some of the universe's first stars through the world's largest telescope on Hawaii's Big Island. IE 11 is not supported.

Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the ground-based Keck II telescope in Hawaii, researchers said they were able to discern cloud formations over bodies of methane and ethane ...