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UH astronomers produce catalog to extensively map universe

UH astronomers produce catalog to extensively map universe

  • August 15, 2022
  • UH News
IfA researchers help produce a massive new catalog of high-fidelity distance estimates to more than 350 million galaxies.
UH-discovered asteroid could be a chunk of the Moon

UH-discovered asteroid could be a chunk of the Moon

  • November 30, 2021
  • UH News
The object was discovered by Pan-STARRS in 2016 and given a name by Hawaiian language students through ʻImiloa’s A Hua He Inoa program.
Enormous white dwarf deciphered with help of Hawaiʻi telescopes

Enormous white dwarf deciphered with help of Hawaiʻi telescopes

  • July 2, 2021
  • UH News
Keck Observatory and data from UH Pan-STARRS helped characterize the dead star, which is about the size of the Moon.
UH astronomers play key role in planetary defense

UH astronomers play key role in planetary defense

  • June 8, 2021
  • UH News
Karen Meech discusses with the BOR the unit’s research accolades and essential collaboration with telescopes in Hawaiʻi.
Pan-STARRS detects 1960s-era rocket booster orbiting Sun

Pan-STARRS detects 1960s-era rocket booster orbiting Sun

  • November 16, 2020
  • UH News
Pan-STARRS1 telescope spotted an object believed to be a rocket booster orbiting Sun.
Two UH astronomers part of international team that agrees on a natural origin for ʻOumuamua

Two UH astronomers part of international team that agrees on a natural origin for ʻOumuamua

  • July 2, 2019
  • UH News
The first recorded interstellar visitor has natural origins, despite previous speculation by some other astronomers that the object could be an alien spacecraft.
Breakthrough: UH team successfully locates incoming asteroid

Breakthrough: UH team successfully locates incoming asteroid

  • June 25, 2019
  • UH News
For the first time, astronomers demonstrated that UH telescopes can provide sufficient warning to move people away from the impact site of an incoming asteroid.
UH team records self-destructing asteroid

UH team records self-destructing asteroid

  • March 28, 2019
  • UH News
Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy detect that Asteroid Gault has begun to slowly disintegrate.
UH part of world’s largest digital sky survey

UH part of world’s largest digital sky survey

  • January 28, 2019
  • UH News
This second release contains more than 1.6 petabytes of data, making it the largest volume of astronomical information ever released.
UH Astronomer John Tonry elected to National Academy of Sciences

UH Astronomer John Tonry elected to National Academy of Sciences

  • May 3, 2018
  • UH News
Tonry is an expert in developing technologies to survey the sky to find moving and variable objects such as exploding stars and asteroids.
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