  {"id":229014,"date":"2026-02-04T07:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=229014"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:20:01","slug":"image-of-the-week-appreciating-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/04\/image-of-the-week-appreciating-astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Week: Appreciating astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMAGE-maui-astronomy.jpg\" alt=\"Silhouette of a person against the star filled night sky\" width=\"676\" height=\"451\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMAGE-maui-astronomy.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMAGE-maui-astronomy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMAGE-maui-astronomy-130x87.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s <em><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> Image of the Week is from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Maui College faculty member Trenton Niemi.<\/p>\n<p>Niemi shared: &ldquo;Professor Paul Thornton of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Maui College appreciating astronomy at the top of Haleakal\u0101&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"blocklink\"><strong>Previous Images<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/28\/image-of-the-week-bird-of-paradise\/\">Bird of Paradise<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/21\/image-of-the-week-linear-accelerator\/\">Linear accelerator<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/14\/image-of-the-week-papaya-patrol\/\">Papaya patrol<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/07\/image-of-the-week-snow-safety\/\">Snow safety<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/17\/image-of-the-week-colin\/\">Colin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/image-of-the-week\/\">All Images of the Week<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Send us your image!<\/h2>\n<p>A big mahalo to everyone who has sent in their images! If selected, they will be posted throughout the semester, so check back to see the amazing work, research and experiences of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> \u02bbohana!<\/p>\n<p>Want to get in on the action? The next <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> Image of the Week could be yours! Submit a photo, drawing, painting, digital illustration of a project you are working on, a moment from a field research outing or a beautiful and\/or interesting shot of a scene on your campus. It could be a class visit during which you see an eye-catching object or scene.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/10JVw_hAgA6Ikrybcg8GLJnJ5bvVLLXkV99iTn4Up4IA\/edit?ts=62bcae95\"><strong>Send your image using a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> email address<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please include a brief description of the image and its connection to your campus, class assignment or other <abbr>UH<\/abbr> connection. By submitting your image, you are giving <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> permission to publish your photo on the <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> website and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> social media accounts. The image must be your original work, and anyone featured in your image needs to give consent to its publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s image is from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Maui College faculty member Trenton Niemi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":229058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[656,61,62,1547,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-229014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-haleakala","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-image-of-the-week","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMAGE-maui-astronomy-horiz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229064,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229014\/revisions\/229064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}