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Keck Observatory launches new electrician apprenticeship program for Hawaiʻi Community College students

The three-year pilot program offers highly specialized technical training and commercial work experience for students enrolled in the college’s Electrical Installation and Maintenance Technology Program.

ASTRONOMY TALK: Exploring Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars

Keck Observatory is hosting an Astronomy Talk that is free and open to the public entitled, “Exploring Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars.”

Hawai’i Island Telescopes Launch New Website

Maunakea Observatories has launched a new website.

Astronomy Talk Video: ‘The Monster at the Heart of Our Galaxy’

Discover this year’s exciting new developments in unraveling the mysteries of supermassive black holes in this video of a talk entitled “The Monster at the Heart of Our Galaxy.”

Journey Through the Universe: Landscapes of the Moon & Mars

W.M. Keck Observatory announces that NASA Scientist Brian Day will give a demonstration of the lunar and planetary mapping and modeling portals his team developed at NASA.

Discovery of New Twin Planets Could Solve Mystery

Scientists are getting closer to the answer of how did the largest planets get to be so large.

$1.2M Grant from Keck Allows Team to Explore Ocean’s Deepest Zone

The deepest 45%t of the ocean depth range remains one of the most unexplored and inaccessible regions on the planet. Twelve people have walked on the moon while only three people have ever been to the deepest zone in the ocean, the hadal zone.

Keck Observatory Open House, Nov. 11

The open house will be filled with cosmic activities, stellar food and a star-studded program featuring renowned astronomers and engineers.

Maunakea Telescope Aids in Discovery of Primordial Galaxy

Scientists now have a detailed glimpse of what may have happened just after the Big Bang about 13.1 billion years ago.

Keck to Present Public Talk in Honoka’a

W.M. Keck Observatory will host a free public astronomy talk at the Honoka’a People’s Theater on Feb. 4.

Keck Observatory: Eve of 25th Anniversary of First Light

For 25 years, W. M. Keck Observatory has stood on Mauna Kea, with November marking the telescope’s quarter-century anniversary of first light.

Kinney Named Chief Scientist at Keck

Anne Kinney has been appointed Chief Scientist of the W.M. Keck Observatory, a role that will go into effect on Aug. 3.

Keck Assists in Discovery of ‘Earth-Sized Planet’

The discovery is of a “near-Earth-size planet in the ‘habitable zone’ around a sun-like star” made by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.