Astronomy

The study about the black holes is published in the Jan. 9, 2023 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters and presented in a press conference at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Wash. 

The planet, Kepler-1658b, with a size similar to Jupiter, is destined to spiral closer and closer to its maturing star until they collide and the planet is obliterated.

During the first year of operations, a milestone was hit with data from the world’s largest solar telescope on Maui made available directly to the public and scientific community.

The Daniel K. Inouye Highway, or Saddle Road, is quite possibly the most important roadway on the island.

UH Mānoa was one of six universities awarded space grants from NASA in 2020 as part of its Artemis Student Challenge program.

They weren’t on the moon — they were in California, remotely driving a rover over 2,000 miles away in Kailua-Kona.

On Wednesday night, a new planet-hunting instrument at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea achieved “first light,” capturing its first data from the sky, a spectrum of the planet Jupiter.

Kona’s free annual AstroDay is fast approaching.

The UH Hilo teaching telescope now is undergoing decommissioning at the summit of Maunakea that is scheduled to be completed in 2023.

The University of Hawaiʻi is a major contributor to protecting Earth from asteroids big and small with several telescopes and programs.

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then looking through a telescope into the depths of space and the twinkling stars staring back at you while imagining all the possibilities is priceless.

Astronomers using a telescope atop Maunakea on the Big Island have captured the most detailed and complete images ever taken of the zone where the constellation of Orion gets zapped with ultraviolet radiation from massive young stars.

Thelma Parker Memorial Public and School Library is joining hundreds of sites throughout the country to celebrate the release of the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

A massive galaxy cluster discovered by UH researchers is among the Inaugural images captured by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope.

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientist was part of a study that discovered that the boulder-covered surface of an asteroid within Earth space that came from the asteroid belt in our solar system protects it from small meteoroid impacts.

The decommissioning of a learning telescope atop Maunakea recently met a critical milestone.

Using a new method to see massive, yet barely visible, gas tanks that fuel the formation of stars, astronomers using a Big Island observatory have created the first ever spatial maps of the enormous gas clouds that birth galaxies.

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.

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.

One of the Big Island astronomy sector’s signature events is set to blast off and everyone is invited.