UH astronomers to track impact of spacecraft, asteroid collision
Astronomers will use telescopes on Maunakea and Haleakalā to collect data and determine how asteroid Dimorphos was impacted.
Public input sought on UH Hilo’s proposed teaching telescope
The proposed project includes a 14-foot high, 18-foot diameter dome that would be placed on a yet to be constructed wooden deck that would connect to an existing building at Halepōhaku.
NASA’s new space telescope takes its first picture of an exoplanet
Exoplanet HIP 65426 b has a mass of 6–12 times that of Jupiter.
UH astronomers produce catalog to extensively map universe
IfA researchers help produce a massive new catalog of high-fidelity distance estimates to more than 350 million galaxies.
NASA scientist comes home to Leeward CC
NASA astrochemist Yukiko Yarnall said Leeward CC sparked her interest in science.
Maunakea telescopes help uncover source of puzzling gamma-ray bursts
This discovery suggests that short gamma-ray bursts may have been more common in the past than expected.
UH discovery among first images captured by Webb Space Telescope
SMACSJ0723 was first pinpointed by IfA researchers nearly 20 years ago.
Maunakea telescope takes key decommissioning step
UH has determined that the proposed project will have no significant adverse environmental impacts.
Pioneering UH female astronomer featured in new book on navigating male-dominated field
Ann Merchant Boesgaard is an astronomer emerita at IfA who began her career at UH in 1967.
Maunakea telescopes capture near-Sun comet roasting to death
The sighting could help explain the scarcity of the near-Sun population of periodic comets and asteroids.