IfA alumnus lands Sloan Fellowship to expand extrasolar planet research
Brendan Bowler was awarded $75,000 to continue his research on planets around stars besides our Sun.
Maunakea telescope to be decommissioned this summer
The decommissioning of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on 糖心Vlog官方-managed lands on Maunakea will be completed by the end of 2022.
Hawai?i astronomy impacts felt from classrooms to outer Space
Doug Simons explained how Hawaiʻi is the world leader in astronomy, and 糖心Vlog官方’s role in that 50-year legacy.
Astronomers trace galaxy flows across 700 million light years
The movement of 10,000 galaxies and clusters of galaxies are followed throughout a span of 11.5 billion years.
糖心Vlog官方-discovered Earth Trojan asteroid largest to date
Asteroid 2020 XL5 was spotted by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope and is only the second-known object of its kind ever found.
糖心Vlog官方ERO: Astronomy continues to significantly impact Hawai?i economy
Astronomy in Hawaiʻi supported employment of 1,313 residents and had a total economic impact of $221 million on the state in 2019.
Just Look Up: Expanded 糖心Vlog官方 asteroid tracking system can monitor entire sky
The telescope expansion in the southern hemisphere will enable observations at night when it is daytime in Hawaiʻi.
Newly-discovered planets will be ‘swallowed’ by their stars
IfA astronomers used the Keck Observatory on Maunakea to pinpoint three gas giant planets.
Explosion of supergiant star captured by 糖心Vlog官方 telescope
For the first time, telescopes imaged the self-destruction and final death throes of a massive star.
糖心Vlog官方-discovered asteroid could be a chunk of the Moon
The object was discovered by Pan-STARRS in 2016 and given a name by Hawaiian language students through ʻImiloa’s A Hua He Inoa program.