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Five local partners will share their priorities, achievements and concerns related to watersheds in the region and across the Big Island.

The three-year pilot program offers highly specialized technical training and commercial work experience for students enrolled in the college’s Electrical Installation and Maintenance Technology Program.

The green comet was discovered by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, Calif., and made its closest approach to the sun on Jan. 12.

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.

Astronomers have discovered the smallest and most massive white dwarf ever seen.

Two astronomers in WM Keck Observatory ‘Ohana are among recipients of this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Newcomb Cleveland Prize for work on their fast radio burst (FRB) study.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar ever found using several Maunakea Observatories.

University of Hawai‘i astronomers using the WM Keck Observatory on Maunakea have discovered an ancient rocky planet in Earth’s home galaxy.

A solar photovoltaic (PV) system was successfully installed on the rooftop of WM Keck Observatory’s telescope facility on Maunakea.

Astronomers have discovered that massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected, astronomers announced Tuesday.

The researchers were able to confirm their hypothesis using two powerful telescopes — the 10-meter Keck II telescope and the 8-meter Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal in Chile.

Astronomers typically assume that large stars form black holes when they die, but this is not the only possible outcome.

W.M. Keck Observatory Chief Scientist John O’Meara will present In Search of the Ultimate Ruler: The Grand Challenge of Distances in Astronomy on Sept. 13.

Three times the mass of Jupiter, a first-of-its-kind planet swings around its star on bizarre, slingshot path.

An astronomy talk story about the groundbreaking results from the Event Horizon Telescope and the pioneering role Maukea Observatories played is set for Aug. 15.

In remembrance of Jerry Nelson’s legacy, observatory personnel spent the next year after his passing capturing his story in a documentary.

Riley Atkinson is the first Kāpili ʻOihana intern to be placed at the WM Keck Observatory on Maunakea.

At first, astronomers thought Asteroid Gault might be a new comet. Instead, it turned out to be an asteroid in the main belt that just developed a comet-like tail. Its newly found tails are the first evidence of any “misbehavior.”

W.M. Keck’s Astronomy Talk series will feature “Dragonflies, Dark Matter, And The Hunt For Ghostly Galaxies” by Pieter Van Dokkum.

In a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine had two suns…