The on Maunakea, Â鶹´«Ã½ Island was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for a significant enhancement of the performance of the adaptive optics system on the Keck II telescope, one of the telescopes on University of Â鶹´«Ã½ managed land.
The Keck II telescope has one of the most scientifically productive adaptive optics systems on Earth, and the upgrade will further advance high-impact research on the hunt for habitable exoplanets, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way and the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Recognizing this as a valuable STEM opportunity for education and workforce development, Keck Observatory will include a postdoc as well as a Â鶹´«Ã½ college student from the summer Akamai Internship Program to work on the development of the project.
Read more about at the Keck Observatory website.