The Pavel’s $10 million gift invests in premier UH expertise
Victor and Margaret Pavel believed deeply in the value of science education and nature preservation.
Astronomer Christoph Baranec named Sloan Foundation Fellow
Institute for Astronomy’s Christoph Baranec has been selected as one of 126 recipients of a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship.
Astronomer helps solve massive galaxy mystery
Astronomers assemble a coherent picture of the formation history of the most massive galaxies in the universe.
First detailed look at a normal galaxy in the early universe
UH Mānoa astronomer Regina Jorgenson has obtained the first image that shows the structure of a normal galaxy in the early universe.
Astronomer Donald Hall named AAAS fellow
UH Mānoa astronomer Donald Hall named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
UH Mānoa holds physics and astronomy open house
The UH Mānoa Department of Physics and Astronomy will hold an open house on Saturday, November 23
Astronomers conclude habitable planets are common
UH Manoa and University of California, Berkeley astronomers now estimate that one in five stars like the sun have planets about the size of Earth and a surface temperature conducive to life.
Scientists find Earth-sized rocky exoplanet
A team of astronomers, led by UH Mānoa’s Andrew Howard found the first Earth-sized planet outside the solar system that has a rocky composition like that of Earth.
Institute for Astronomy remembers George H. Herbig
George H. Herbig, astronomer emeritus at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has died at the age of 93.
Link discovered between solar storms and dropped cell phone calls
An international study conducted in part by a scientist at the Institute for Astronomy reveals connection between solar storms and radio bursts.
