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Astronomers trace galaxy flows across 700 million light years

The movement of 10,000 galaxies and clusters of galaxies are followed throughout a span of 11.5 billion years.

Asteroid 2020 XL5 was spotted by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope and is only the second-known object of its kind ever found.

Astronomy in Hawaiʻi supported employment of 1,313 residents and had a total economic impact of $221 million on the state in 2019.

The telescope expansion in the southern hemisphere will enable observations at night when it is daytime in Hawaiʻi.

IfA astronomers used the Keck Observatory on Maunakea to pinpoint three gas giant planets.

For the first time, telescopes imaged the self-destruction and final death throes of a massive star.

The object was discovered by Pan-STARRS in 2016 and given a name by Hawaiian language students through ʻImiloa’s A Hua He Inoa program.

Teams of UH Mānoa scientists were awarded a total of $1.3 million to understand how rocky planets like Earth form.

Shadia Rifai Habbal will lead one of a small handful of scientific teams to carry out observations in the South Pole.

UH astronomer Nader Haghighipour helped develop a technique to quickly detect objects orbiting around two stars.