09 August 2019
Is the Milky Way's black hole waking up?
... black hole known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short) is usually a quiet inhabitant. But recent observations with the Keck telescope have showed a big increase in activity suggesting that it could be waking up. Either that or a recent meal has given...
10 April 2017
Super-Jupiter mass planet found in the galactic bulge
Using the Keck telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have found a super-Jupiter mass...as the K2C9 program, which involves the recovered Kepler space telescope working in conjunction with ground-based observatories to find possible events suitable for ...
15 April 2020
Scientists discover most brightest and energetic supernova yet
...-STARRS), a large-scale astronomical survey programme. The team also used data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck and Gemini Observatories, in Hawaii, and the MDM and MMT Observatories in Arizona. Other collaborating institutions...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... wasn’t a dim background star system contaminating the signal. So we made high resolution adaptive optics observations at the Keck Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. We knew that an eclipsing binary or a star with a giant transiting planet could combine...
