#UH Institute for Astronomy

What’s your favorite extraterrestrial event in 2023? Take Big Island Now’s 30-second poll

In 2023 there have been some extraterrestrail events spied from Earth that have had the public, internet and social media buzzing. What was your favorite?

Planet spiraling to its doom discovered by University of Hawaiʻi astronomers

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.

Report: Astronomy Continues to Significantly Impact Hawaiʻi Economy

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.

UH IfA Director Leaving for European Space Agency

UH Institute for Astronomy Director Günther Hasinger is leaving to be the next director of science at the European Space Agency, Europe’s equivalent to NASA.

Astronomers Discover Variability in the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades Cluster

An international team of astronomers used the Kepler Space Telescope to perform the most detailed study of the Pleiades star cluster to date

Transit of Venus Visible From Big Island

Hawaii will be one of the prime viewing spots for the Transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event that occurs every hundred years or so.