{"id":72858,"date":"2018-01-05T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T01:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=72858"},"modified":"2019-03-18T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T02:34:45","slug":"maunakea-observatory-grant-to-upgrade-adaptive-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/05\/maunakea-observatory-grant-to-upgrade-adaptive-optics\/","title":{"rendered":"Maunakea observatory awarded NSF<\/abbr> grant to upgrade adaptive optics"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics of the Keck II<\/abbr> telescope. Image by Andrew Hara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The W. M. Keck Observatory<\/a> on Maunakea, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for a significant enhancement of the performance of the adaptive optics system on the Keck II<\/abbr> telescope, one of the telescopes on University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> managed land.<\/p>\n

The Keck II<\/abbr> 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. <\/p>\n

Recognizing this as a valuable STEM<\/abbr> opportunity for education and workforce development, Keck Observatory will include a postdoc as well as a Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> college student from the summer Akamai Internship Program<\/a> to work on the development of the project.<\/p>\n

Read more about the upgrade and the research<\/a> at the Keck Observatory website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The enhancement of the Keck II<\/abbr> telescope adaptive optics system will advance research on exoplanets, black holes and dark matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":72861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34,659,1164,947],"class_list":["post-72858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-astronomy","tag-maunakea","tag-telescope","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/system-maunakea-keck-grant.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72858"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92934,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72858\/revisions\/92934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}