Number 12 (Story #4), December 10, 1990 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE KECK TELESCOPE , with only nine of its 36 hexagonal mirror segments installed, has recorded a photograph of NGC 1232, a spiral-armed galaxy 65 million light years away. Keck, the world's largest optical and infrared telescope, currently under construction on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, is scheduled to begin full operation late next year. With a ten-meter mirror, Keck will have four times the light gathering power of the 200-inch Hale Telescope. (Science News, December 1, 1990.)