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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Hawaiian language professor and cultural practitioner Larry Kimura named the black hole Pōwehi, a name sourced from the Kumulipo.
The ʻImiloa Astronomy Center celebrated its 13th anniversary.
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.
Hawaiʻi is the first place in the world to weave traditional indigenous practices into the process of officially naming astronomical discoveries at ʻImiloa Astronomy Center.
