Sep 30, 2021
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Keck Obeservatory
After nearly four years, my work on this amazing project is drawing to an end. It has been an honor and a pleasure to endeavor alongside some of the brightest minds and tireless hearts one could imagine. Excelsior! https://www.instagram.com/p/B9FTdJ3lcmq/?igshid=11syewfu20lxe
The W. M. Keck Observatory is a two-telescope astronomical observatory at an elevation of 4,145 meters (13,600 ft) near the summit of Mauna Kea in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Both telescopes feature 10 m (33 ft) primary mirrors, currently among the largest astronomical telescopes in use.
images: Keck Observatory, Sarah Elliott, Vadim Kurland
Neptune's unexpected bright storm
A storm complex nearly the size of Earth has been seen in a usually quiet area of Neptune. Ned Molter from the University of California, Berkeley in the US spotted the storm while performing a test run of twilight observing at the W M Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
The storm system appears as a very bright region about 9000 km in length and spans at least 30° in both latitude and longitude. "Seeing a storm this bright at such a low latitude is extremely surprising," explains Molter. "Normally, this area is really quiet and we only see bright clouds in the mid-latitude bands, so to have such an enormous cloud sitting right at the equator is spectacular."
Source: physicsworld.com
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