Hawaiʻi astronomers part of $11M grant to design software for new space telescope
The team will design software needed to process observations of thousands of supernovae that Roman is expected to discover.
Earth’s electrons may be forming water on the Moon
The new discovery may also help explain the origin of the water ice previously discovered on the Moon.
Vast bubble of galaxies discovered, given Hawaiian name
The immense bubble has been given the name Hoʻoleilana, a term drawn from the Kumulipo, a Hawaiian creation chant.
UH astronomy students win national, university awards
Six graduate students at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have received local and national recognition for their research and mentorship.
‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid identified through new algorithm
The roughly 600-foot-long asteroid, designated 2022 SF289, was discovered during a test drive of the algorithm with the ATLAS survey in Hawaiʻi.
Sun ‘umbrella’ tethered to asteroid might help mitigate climate change
Engineering studies using this approach could start now to create a workable design that could mitigate climate change within decades.
Hawaiʻi observatories play critical role adding color to new space mission
The IfA team is especially interested in using this data to measure the parameters that characterize the properties of the universe.
Hawaiʻi astronomers discover death-defying planet
The star would have inflated up to 1.5 times the planet’s orbital distance before shrinking to its current size at only one-tenth of that distance.
$4M boosts IfA development of new sensors for exoplanet imaging
The new generation of ultra-sensitive sensors will help observe distant Earth-like planets.
In memoriam: Pan-STARRS pioneer, trailblazing astronomer Nick Kaiser
Kaiser was an astronomer at IfA from 1998 to 2017.
