Keck Telescope

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

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

It was not until a few months later, when data from a second visit to the Keck telescope produced another spiral, that we accepted reality.

From Scientific American

But was there any known debris in the path of the Keck telescope at the time of the claimed GN-z11 flash?

From Science Magazine

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

O’Donoghue and his colleagues observed this phenomenon with the huge Keck telescope in Hawaii and concluded that a combination of Saturn’s gravity and magnetism pulls an Olympic-size swimming pool worth of material into the planet every 30 minutes.

From Washington Post