UH board moves meeting on Maunakea administrative rules to Hawai?i Island
The special meeting is being relocated to Â鶹´«Ã½ Island to provide more opportunity for participation from the community most directly impacted by the proposed rules.
Black hole shreds star, UH astronomer on discovery team
For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the immediate aftermath of a star being violently ripped apart by a supermassive black hole.
UH astronomy team helps confirm 2nd potential interstellar object
The University of Â鶹´«Ã½ at ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ astronomers help confirm the discovery of a comet scientists believe may have originated from outside the solar system.
Are black holes made of dark energy?
UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein¡¯s equations to model the growth of the universe
Maunakea telescopes win the ‘Oscars of Science’ for P¨wehi
Two telescopes were part of an international collaboration that won the $3 million 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics award, for the world¡¯s first image of a supermassive black hole.
?Imiloa: Sharing Hawai?i¡¯s legacy of exploration
The ʻImiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo has been doing groundbreaking work to integrate modern science and indigenous culture since the center first opened in 2006.
IfA helps Hilo kids launch payload into space
The Institute for Astronomy is teaming up with the Hawaii Science and Technology Museum and Hilo students to launch a mini satellite, or CubeSat, into space.
UH Hilo Hawaiian language expert names new telescope instrument
The new instrument N¨¡makanui (The Big Eyes) is comprised of three cameras and will allow astronomers to seek out the coldest gas and dust in the universe.
Critical observation made on Maunakea during first night of return to operations
Observations of the near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 made with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have ruled out any potential future impact threat to the Earth by this asteroid for the next century.
Astronomers to deploy breakthrough technology at UH telescope
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million grant to an IfA scientist to install a high-tech shape-shifting secondary mirror on the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Maunakea.