#Astronomers
Big Island’s Maunakea is front-row seat to discovering what’s in the universe
Maunakea’s unique geography, geology and atmospheric conditions make the Big Island’s tallest volcanic mountain a premiere place in the world for astronomy research.
Astronomers on Maunakea capture starlight images from 2 massive galaxies hosting growing black holes
An international team of scientists, including staff astronomer Chien-Hsiu Lee at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, has captured first time images of starlight from two massive galaxies hosting actively growing black holes from less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
$4M NASA grant will help UH researchers develop new sensors for mission to find possibly inhabitable Earth-like exoplanets
For the past several years, with NASA support, astronomers at the UH Institute for Astronomy and industry partners have been maturing the new tech that will be used for a mission to identify and classify about 25 Earth-like exoplanets.
‘This Is Just The First’
A massive galaxy cluster discovered by UH researchers is among the Inaugural images captured by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope.
Making The Nearly Invisible, Visible: Astronomers Trace Gas That Breathes Life Into Galaxies
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.
