UH Hilo Hawaiian language expert names new telescope instrument
The new instrument Nāmakanui (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.
Chun named executive director of Maunakea stewardship
The Hawaiʻi Island resident will oversee relevant UH programs and report directly to UH Hilo Chancellor Bonnie D. Irwin.
NASA awards grants to 3 UH grad students
Madeline McKenna, Cory Gerrity and Travis Berger are honored for their achievements in science, technology and exploration.
UH 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 UH 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 Mānoa 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 UH astronomers part of international team that agrees on a natural origin for ʻOumuamua
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.
