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Scientists accurately quantify dust around planets in search for life

Rafael Millan-Gabet: ‘If you don’t turn off the star, you are blinded and can’t see dust or planets’

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Keck completes $4 million adaptive optics fund

Wizinowich: ‘Ever since Galileo, astronomers have been building bigger telescopes to collect more light to observe more distant objects’

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In 1979, Voyager 1 revealed dynamic volcanic activity from the first close-up pictures of its surface

Adaptive Optics allows Earth-based monitoring of Io’s fiery show

In 1979, Voyager 1 revealed dynamic volcanic activity from the first close-up pictures of its surface

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Private foundations fund new astronomy tool

MEDIA RELEASE The W. M. Keck Observatory has been awarded two major grants to help build a $4 million laser system as the next leap forward in a technology which already enables ground-based telescopes to exceed the observational power of telescopes in space. The new laser, when installed on the current adaptive optics system on […]

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