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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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 • 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

"Naturally, the challenges have come in places we least expected them," says physicist Terry Mast, one of the scientists who is helping build the Keck Telescope.

From Time Magazine Archive