Enormous white dwarf deciphered with help of Hawaiʻi telescopes
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
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-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
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
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
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
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
Tonry is an expert in developing technologies to survey the sky to find moving and variable objects such as exploding stars and asteroids.
Small asteroid or comet ‘visits’ from beyond the solar system
A small, recently discovered asteroid or comet appears to have originated from outside the solar system, if so it could be the first “interstellar object” to be observed and confirmed by astronomers.
UH part of astronomical discovery that changes understanding of universe
Institute for Astronomy researchers played a major role in one of the most significant astronomical discoveries in decades—the first observations of a binary neutron star merger and resulting kilonova explosion.
