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Neither do the ones that run the telescopes. The European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope, built in the 1980s as a 3.5-m precursor to the Very Large Telescope (VLT), worked beautifully. So did Keck 1 when it went into operation in 1992. And so, in turn, have the other big telescopes as they've come online over the past two years. With both enormous size and smooth performance, these giant telescopes are doing science on a heroic scale--especially the Keck, which has had more than a half-decade head start on its rivals. In fact, says...
...past few years, the Hale has been humbled. Here on Mauna Kea alone sit the Subaru telescope (no relation to the car), with a mirror more than 8 m (27 ft.) across; the Gemini North telescope, also topping 8 m; and the kings of the mountain, the twin Keck telescopes, whose light-gathering surfaces are an astonishing 10 m--33 ft.--in diameter...
...giants can find their own way through the universe. Geoff Marcy, for example, leader of the world's most prolific planet-hunting team, began his research at the relatively modest 3.5-m telescope at Lick Observatory in California. Then, in 1996, he moved most of his project to the Keck, with dramatic results. "We've discovered 35 planets orbiting sunlike stars so far," says Marcy, who holds joint appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. "And the majority of them have been with the Keck...
George Djorgovski is using the Keck as well, but where Marcy's quarries are no more than 200 light-years way, Djorgovski's are closer to 10 billion. A professor at Caltech, Djorgovski has lately been concentrating on gamma-ray bursts--mysterious flashes of high-energy radiation that have baffled astronomers for nearly 40 years. If these blips of electromagnetic energy can be seen from far across the universe, as some astronomers believe, then they must briefly shine as bright as the rest of the stars in the universe put together--a seemingly preposterous assertion...
Four singles, a pair by junior first baseman Erik Binkowski and one apiece by Carmack and senior catcher Jason Keck, was all Harvard could string together in its worst offensive performance of the season--its first shutout since the season opener at Charleston Southern...