Astronomy

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.

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.

A Hawaiʻi nonprofit is giving students throughout the islands the chance to make their mark on the moon.

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.

Several students from an Oʻahu high school are the latest to be named Maunakea Scholars.

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.

An observatory atop Maunakea played a major part in a recent study involving high-altitude winds, aurorae and planetary rotation of Saturn.

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.

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.

Everything in the universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes.

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.

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.

The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents during its meeting Thursday adopted the new Master Plan for UH-managed lands on Maunakea.

Technology pioneered by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy will allow astronomers to peer even farther into the universe.

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.

The Hōkū Keʻa decommissioning DEA notice for accepting public comments (PDF) was posted on September 9.

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.