Astronomy
Sunday, May 15, 2022
AstroDay Gives Community Chance to Geek Out About Astronomy, Science
A future astronaut, one burgeoning paleontologist and hundreds of others of all ages and sizes came to space out Saturday, May 14, at Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo for AstroDay.
Thursday, May 12, 2022
2 Maunakea Observatories Help Produce First Image of Black Hole at Center of The Milky Way
The world now has an image of the giant occupying the darkness at the center of the Milky Way thanks to a collaborative effort among more than 300 researchers from 80 institutes from around the globe, including 11 observatories, two of which are on the Big Island.
Thursday, May 05, 2022
Get Ready For a Trip to the Cosmos During AstroDay 2022
One of the Big Island astronomy sector’s signature events is set to blast off and everyone is invited.
Friday, April 29, 2022
Mauna Kea Management Authority Bill Passes Conference Committee
State and House negotiators voted Friday, April 29, to approve a measure that transitions management of Mauna Kea from the University of Hawai‘i to the Mauna a Wākea stewardship authority.
Tuesday, April 05, 2022
Students Have Chance to Name Lunar Camera
A Hawaiʻi nonprofit is giving students throughout the islands the chance to make their mark on the moon.
Saturday, March 05, 2022
Maunakea Observatory Helps Astronomers Discover Rare Brown Dwarf Pair
Observations conducted with a Big Island observatory helped a team of astronomers discover a rare pair of brown dwarfs that has the widest separation of any brown dwarf binary system found to date.
Monday, February 21, 2022
Waipahu Students Win Telescope Time Through Maunakea Scholars Program
Several students from an Oʻahu high school are the latest to be named Maunakea Scholars.
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Keck Observatory Part of Team to Discover Massive Cluster of Young Galaxies
An observatory atop Maunakea played a part in the discovery by an international team of astronomers that discovered a massive cluster of young galaxies forming in the early universe.
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Maunakea Observatory Assists With New Study About Saturn’s Aurorae
An observatory atop Maunakea played a major part in a recent study involving high-altitude winds, aurorae and planetary rotation of Saturn.
Monday, February 07, 2022
UH Mission to Find Lunar Ice Gets $3M NASA Boost
A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa project to detect ice deposits below the surface of the moon has received a nearly $3 million boost from NASA.
Sunday, February 06, 2022
Largest Earth Trojan Asteroid to Date Discovered by UH Telescope on Maui
An asteroid bigger than the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa campus discovered by a UH Institute for Astronomy telescope atop Haleakalā on Maui is only the second-known object of its kind ever found.
Sunday, February 06, 2022
UH: Astronomers Trace Galaxy Flows
Everything in the universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes.
Friday, February 04, 2022
Contest Seeks Designs for 2022 Maunakea Coin
Part of the mission of the Maunakea Observatories is to share their discoveries with Big Island students and the public. And sometimes, getting that conversation started can be as simple as minting a coin.
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Report: Astronomy Continues to Significantly Impact Hawaiʻi Economy
Astronomy in Hawaiʻi supports employment of 1,313 residents and had a total economic impact of $221 million on the state in 2019, according to a University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization update released Sunday, Jan. 30.
Thursday, January 20, 2022
UH Regents Approve New Maunakea Master Plan
The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents during its meeting Thursday adopted the new Master Plan for UH-managed lands on Maunakea.
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Sensors Designed at UH Institute for Astronomy to Be Aboard NASA Space Telescope
Technology pioneered by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy will allow astronomers to peer even farther into the universe.
Friday, October 22, 2021
Infant planet discovered by UH-led Team Using Maunakea Telescopes
One of the youngest planets ever found around a distant infant star was discovered by an international team of scientists led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty, students and alumni.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Public Meeting on Telescope Decommissioning
The Hōkū Keʻa decommissioning DEA notice for accepting public comments (PDF) was posted on September 9.
Sunday, August 08, 2021
Observatories Assemble to Solve “Energy Crisis” on Jupiter
Observations from JAXA’s Hisaki satellite showed that conditions at the time of the Keck II temperature observations could generate a strong aurora on Jupiter.
Monday, July 19, 2021
Hawaii Telescopes Help Pinpoint Dark Heart of Nearest Radio Galaxy
With the resolving power of the EHT, astronomers can now link the vast radio lobes, or jets, of the source to their location of origin in the center of the Centaurus A galaxy.