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Maunakea telescopes win the ‘Oscars of Science’ for Pōwehi

September 6, 2019

Two telescopes were part of an international collaboration that won the $3 million 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics award, for the world’s first image of a supermassive black hole.

ʻImiloa Astronomy Center invites visitors to share their manaʻo about Maunakea

September 4, 2019

A new “reflecting wall” exhibit at the ʻImiloa Astronomy Center, entitled “Maunakea Reflections,” invites visitors to write and post their thoughts and opinions about Maunakea.

ʻImiloa: Sharing Hawaiʻi’s legacy of exploration

August 30, 2019

The ʻImiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo has been doing groundbreaking work to integrate modern science and indigenous culture since the center first opened in 2006.

UH Hilo Hawaiian language expert names new telescope instrument

August 13, 2019

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.

Camp ʻImi-Possible leads students on exploration of native insect life

August 5, 2019

Young scientists explored native and endemic insects and spiders found in Hawaiʻī and nowhere else in the world at the ʻImiloa Astronomy Center’s Camp ʻImi-Possible.

ʻImiloa Astronomy Center hosts Hilo keiki in summer program

July 31, 2019

The visit to the ʻImiloa Astronomy Center gave participants a “mauka” immersion to contrast the “makai” setting of the STEM-focused ocean awareness ʻIke Kai program.

International Astronomical Union adopts Hawaiian names for two locally-discovered asteroids

June 28, 2019

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.

UH Hilo professor names black hole capturing world’s attention

April 10, 2019

UH Hilo Hawaiian language professor and cultural practitioner Larry Kimura named the black hole Pōwehi, a name sourced from the Kumulipo.

ʻImiloa Turns 13!

March 1, 2019

The ʻImiloa Astronomy Center celebrated its 13th anniversary.

Hawaiian naming program of celestial bodies well received at astronomy conference

January 8, 2019

The ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi's A Hua He Inoa program brings together Hawaiian speaking students, Hawaiian educators and Hawaiʻi-based astronomers on naming astronomical discoveries.