Pioneering UH female astronomer featured in new book on navigating male-dominated field
Ann Merchant Boesgaard is an astronomer emerita at IfA who began her career at UH in 1967.
Ann Merchant Boesgaard is an astronomer emerita at IfA who began her career at UH in 1967.
The sighting could help explain the scarcity of the near-Sun population of periodic comets and asteroids.
About 75% of HI STAR students have gone on to enter the regional science fair and win awards at state and international levels.
The 12.5-foot dome, which houses a 17-inch telescope, is geared toward helping build student interest in STEM-related careers and is mounted on a building rooftop on the school’s campus.
The project will measure the most powerful particles emitted by the Sun.
More than 70 volunteers presented science and technology activities to hundreds of keiki and adults.
Students, faculty and staff taught two dozen children and women about STEM through many different hands-on activities.
The image provides overwhelming evidence that the object, 4-million-times more massive than the Sun, is indeed a black hole.
The Maunakea Scholars program awarded telescope time to three Lānaʻi students for the first time.
Onlookers labeled the sighting a “flying whirlpool” and pondered whether it was connected to eerie extraterrestrial spacecraft.