Twin Keck Telescopes

The Twin Keck Telescopes out in Hawaii on the dormant Mauna Kea volcano are current the most powerful telescopes in the world. Being the worlds largest optical and infared telescopes they are quite renowned for the work that they are able to do. Keck I has been doing its job since 1993 and then Keck II project was initiated and finished in 1996, the NASA program has a one sixth partnership in the observatory.
Each of the twin telescopes stand at an outstanding eight stories tall and weigh a total of 300 tons. Their primary mirrors alone are ten metres in diameter and made up of thirty-six hexagonal segments that work together in concert as a single sheet of reflective glass.

The positioning of the telescopes was no coincidence either, since the Mauna Kea volcano is the only in the area and is so tall the atmosphere isn’t as thick and out in Hawaii most of the year the skies are clear, and there are few lights to light up the night on Hawaii so the telescopes can be used to the best of their abilities.
These two telescopes are equipped with the highest in advancements when it comes to space exploration, everything in them is made so that everything they look at would look as crisp and clean as it would if you were standing beside it.
Although these twins will soon go down the ranks in the world of telescopes as a thirty metres telescope is being made and is set to be finished in 2015. So until then they will keep working to find new places within our galaxy, and universe.
The Twin Keck telescopes were definitely the start of the big start of exploring the galaxy and the universe. although with continued ways to get past things like earths gravitational field, and increasing the size of it like the Thirty Metres Telescope they definitely still have a future just in new forms and placed in different areas of the world. The ginormous telescopes definitely have and will continue to make a difference in space exploration.