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Enormous white dwarf deciphered with help of Hawai?i telescopes

Keck Observatory and data from 糖心Vlog官方 Pan-STARRS helped characterize the dead star, which is about the size of the Moon.

Five asteroids have recently been named in honor of IfA astronomers.

Five IfA students earned a wide range of awards, many including scholarships and fellowships.

Karen Meech discusses with the BOR the unit’s research accolades and essential collaboration with telescopes in Hawaiʻi.

IfA Astronomer Karen Meech will headline virtual conversation about interstellar object ʻOumuamua.

Pan-STARRS spots three asteroids, one of them, about the size of 1½ football fields, which hadn’t been seen since 2001.

Nineteen STEM doctoral candidates received a $5,000 grant to support travel, computer research equipment and educational expenses.

More than a thousand viewers from as far as Hong Kong and India tuned into IfA’s livestream of the total lunar eclipse on May 26.

The Hawaiʻi-based planetary census sought to find where giant planets tend to reside relative to their host stars.

IfA will lead researchers set to analyze images captured by NASA’s flagship JWST mission which will launch in fall 2021.