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Seeing quadruple: Rare gravitational lensing warps light from explosion of distant dying star
With the help of an observatory atop Maunakea on the Big Island, a team of astronomers were able to capture a bizarre quadruple image of the supernova dubbed “SN Zwicky.”
‘Death Star’ gobbles up planet, offering glimpse of Earth’s fate in 5 billion years
With the help of the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Maunakea on the Big Island, astronomers for the first time have observed direct evidence for a scenario they already knew happens throughout the universe — an aging star engulfing planets on inner orbits around it.
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.
Maunakea Scientists Study Potentially Habitable Planets
A total of seven planets have been discovered around TRAPPIST-1 by using the transit technique, in which astronomers carefully measure the small dimming that occurs when one or more of the planets crosses in front of the star.
