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Keck Telescope

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  1. The world's premier optical telescope, located on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Completed in 1992, it is the first of a new generation of telescopes in which electronic controls constantly adjust a collection of small mirrors to compensate for atmospheric distortion to produce images of unprecedented clarity.


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The findings of the study rely on more than 25 years of observations, also including data from ESA's Gaia satellite and the Keck Telescope in Hawaii.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2024

The night after that I got a brief window of time on the Keck Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, with the hope of measuring how far away the explosion was.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2020

He was the project scientist for the Keck Telescope, but no one warned me that he also was the smartest guy in the room.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2017

This image shows the inner 1 arcsecond, or 0.13 light-year, at the center of the Galaxy, as observed with the giant Keck Telescope.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

The pair will soon be heading for the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, the world's largest, to continue the search with even more powerful equipment.

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