Linked Hawaiian Telescopes Catch a Nova Surprise

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The two Keck 10-meter (33 feet) telescopes. Image credit: NASAJPL
The two Keck 10-meter (33 feet) telescopes. Image credit: NASA/JPL

First results from a new NASA-funded scientific instrument at the W. M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful explosions called novae and have produced specific information about one nearby nova.


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