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...Kepler Mission, which will send a telescope to search for habitable planets. TrES-2 is in the same region that Kepler will peruse. O’Donovan wrote that a series of disappointments before the final confirmation of TrES-2’s existence at the Keck telescope in Hawaii almost led him to “give up hope.” “When we were observing at Keck and we realized we had found a planet, it felt like a dream,” he wrote. “And now I can graduate...
...half days when the planet was transiting, or passing in front of the star. From this, they determined that the planet was 35 percent larger than Jupiter. To measure the wobble of the star, or how much the planet tugs on the star, the team made observations from the Keck, which is the largest telescope in the world and has 10,000 times the collecting area of a HAT telescope, and the Japanese SUBARU, both of which are located in Hawaii. What they found was an astronomical anomaly: Although it is the largest planet ever discovered...
...away and have created weird optical effects, including multiple images of faraway quasars. If you look at a massive cluster of galaxies, Ellis figured, you might see amplified images of more distant galaxies, too faint to be seen otherwise. So a year or two ago, he started aiming the Keck at galactic clusters, and along with Stark, he identified six candidate objects. To make certain that these were truly far away, the pair has come back to the Keck for a second, more intensive look. "We want to be absolutely sure we aren't fooling ourselves," says Ellis. "Before...
...hour or so, it looked as though they wouldn't get the chance. They had just this one night at the Keck; the telescope is so overbooked that even an eminent astronomer like Ellis has to wait his turn, and his next observing run isn't until January 2007. But the engineers this night have figured out the problem. When Stark entered his user name in the online telescope log, he made a typo. Every time the focusing routine came upon it, the program froze. The typo has now been corrected. The Keck can focus again, and to their delight...
...team of astrophysicists using the Keck and Hubble telescopes has found distant galaxies warped into odd, elongated shapes, as though they were being glimpsed through a cosmic fun-house mirror. The light from those galaxies ordinarily could never be detected through existing telescopes...