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‘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.

KS Hawaiʻi Student Selected to Participate in MIT Summer Workshop

A Big Island student has been selected to take part in a summer workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and she’s hoping her community will help to get her there.