Reading time: 2minutes The search process will convene over the fall semester with finalists invited to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus in spring 2020 semester.
Reading time: 4minutes For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the immediate aftermath of a star being violently ripped apart by a supermassive black hole.
Reading time: < 1minute The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa astronomers help confirm the discovery of a comet scientists believe may have originated from outside the solar system.
Reading time: 3minutes Observations of the near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 made with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have ruled out any potential future impact threat to the Earth by this asteroid for the next century.
Reading time: 2minutes The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million grant to an IfA scientist to install a high-tech shape-shifting secondary mirror on the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Maunakea.