67K views · 815 reactions | Check out that gorgeous glow  Here’s a view of Madame Pele from Maunakea, as captured overnight with our Keck Observatory webcam. Kīlauea volcano began erupting just after midnight at ~12:30 a.m. HST, southwest of Kīlauea caldera. The new eruption is in a remote location and does not pose an immediate threat. For updates  https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo  From Keck Observatory looking south toward Kīlauea. | W. M. Keck Observatory | Facebook

W. M. Keck Observatory on Reels

W. M. Keck Observatory on Reels

What's new in the young universe? Shortly after the Big Bang, our universe has been measured to have been almost amazingly uniform. Fortunately for our existence, it didn't stay that way long. The excess gravity of slightly over-dense regions slowed their expansion and eventually caused them to collapse into the first galaxies, forming the first generation of stars and, presumably, planets. Studying this process was the prime motivation for building the Keck telescopes, which are now showing us