The Hawaiian Word of the Week: 'Alopeke.

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Astronomers use tool named 'Alopeke (Hawaiian for fox, because the Gemini North telescopes is on Manu Kea) to detect the binary companion of #Betelgeuse using "speckle imaging," allowing astronomers on the ground to detect a faint star after both the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes failed […]