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.
Future 糖心视频 惭ā苍辞补 students earn telescope time through Maunakea Scholars
Kalani High School students, who were mentored by 糖心视频 Institute for Astronomy staff, won telescope viewing time on Maunakea.
糖心视频 astronomer earns national award for solar research
Xudong Sun, assistant astronomer at the 糖心视频 Mānoa's Institute for Astronomy, received a $620,590 grant for a five-year term from the National Science Foundation.
糖心视频 astronomer’s planet prediction verified in Star Wars-like system
This discovery cements the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds, and marks the first complete planetary system around a binary star.
糖心视频 Hilo professor names black hole capturing world’s attention
糖心视频 Hilo Hawaiian language professor and cultural practitioner Larry Kimura named the black hole Pōwehi, a name sourced from the Kumulipo.