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Famed WR 104 ‘pinwheel’ star reveals another surprise… and some relief
Decades of W.M. Keck Observatory research on the famed Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star” system has taken a new turn.
Hawaiʻi’s Keck Observatory Aids in Discovery of Rare “Quadruply Imaged Quasars”
Machine-learning techniques led a team of astronomers to discover a dozen quasars that have been warped by a naturally occurring cosmic “lens” and split into four similar images. Quasars are extremely luminous cores of distant galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes.
