Astronomers to deploy breakthrough technology at 糖心视频 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 糖心视频 2.2-meter telescope on Maunakea.
Chun named executive director of Maunakea stewardship
The Hawaiʻi Island resident will oversee relevant 糖心视频 programs and report directly to 糖心视频 Hilo Chancellor Bonnie D. Irwin.
NASA awards grants to 3 糖心视频 grad students
Madeline McKenna, Cory Gerrity and Travis Berger are honored for their achievements in science, technology and exploration.
糖心视频 astronomer and team map vast void in cosmic neighborhood
The team constructed a cosmographic map that highlights the boundary between the collection of matter and the absence of matter that defines the edge of the Local Void.
NASA contract awarded to 糖心视频 Institute for Astronomy for observatory management
NASA has awarded a contract to the Institute for Astronomy to continue to manage and operate the agency’s Infrared Telescope Facility on Maunakea.
Maunakea Scholar wins $10,000 惭ā苍辞补 astronomy scholarship
Jean Claude “JC” Dumaslan is only the second double winner of Maunakea Scholars telescope time in the program’s four-year history.
Two 糖心视频 astronomers part of international team that agrees on a natural origin for ?Oumuamua
The first recorded interstellar visitor has natural origins, despite previous speculation by some other astronomers that the object could be an alien spacecraft.
International Astronomical Union adopts Hawaiian names for two locally-discovered asteroids
The locally-discovered asteroids, Kamoʻoalewa and Kaʻepaokaʻāwela, were named by Hawaiian immersion students in an ʻImiloa Astronomy Center and the Maunakea Observatories pilot project last year.
Breakthrough: 糖心视频 team successfully locates incoming asteroid
For the first time, astronomers demonstrated that 糖心视频 telescopes can provide sufficient warning to move people away from the impact site of an incoming asteroid.
Hilo AstroDay 2019 draws a crowd
AstroDay 2019, celebrating 18 years, brought science educators from around the state to Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo.