Reading time: 3minutes UH Hilo Hawaiian language professor and cultural practitioner Larry Kimura named the black hole Pōwehi, a name sourced from the Kumulipo.
Reading time: 3minutes Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy detect that Asteroid Gault has begun to slowly disintegrate.
Reading time: 2minutes An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Hawaiʻi graduate student, announced the confirmation of the first exoplanet candidate.
Reading time: 2minutes Daniel Huber is one of 126 recipients across the U.S. and Canada to receive the Sloan Fellowship, which are given to those whose achievements and potential identify them as the next generation of scientific leaders.
Reading time: 2minutes This second release contains more than 1.6 petabytes of data, making it the largest volume of astronomical information ever released.
Reading time: 2minutes Ann Merchant Boesgaard, professor emerita of astronomy, is the 2019 recipient of the American Astronomical Society's 2019 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, the organization's highest award.
Reading time: 2minutes A supernova discovered by an international group of astronomers has provided an unprecedented look at the first moments of a violent stellar explosion.
Reading time: 2minutes Waipahu High School student Laura Daclison observed a real-life “Tatooine” using one of the largest, most scientifically-impactful observatories in the world as part of the Maunakea Scholars program.
Reading time: 3minutes The new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto has an orbit that supports the presence of a larger unknown planet or “Planet X.”