UH astronomer to build sharper eyes for Maunakea telescope
Christoph Baranec at the Institute for Astronomy was awarded a $1 million grant to build the autonomous adaptive optics system.
Institute for Astronomy celebrates 50 years of discovery
Since it’s founding on July 1, 1967, UH Mānoa’s IfA has played a role in almost every significant astronomical discovery.
Dava Sobel and Galileo’s Daughters explore history and the stars
Two events include music, imagery and narrative and Sobel speaking on her new book.
Nainoa Thompson: University of Hawai‘i is the most important navigator
Countless UH students, faculty, staff and alumni served Hōkūleʻaʻs worldwide voyage as volunteers, navigators, captains and scientific researchers.
Exoplanet family tree gains a new branch
Researchers discovered that the majority of exoplanets found to date fall into two distinct size groups: rocky Earth-like planets and larger mini-Neptunes.
Shine bright like a diamond: Team obtains best-ever infrared maps of super-luminous galaxies
Jason Chu and David Sanders use far-infrared images to explore what galaxy collisions on a grand scale look like.
Separating true stars from wannabes
Institute for Astronomy researchers discover the dividing line of mass that separates stars from brown dwarfs.
21st century education opportunity, made in Hawai‘i, starts today
This editorial on the Maunakea Scholars Program by David Lassner, Kathryn Matayoshi and Doug Simons ran in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on May 28, 2017.
Growing Hawaiʻi’s next generation of astronomers
The collaborative agreement will develop more opportunities for local high school students to utilize educational potential of the Maunakea Observatories.
Mānoa researchers awarded Board of Regents’ medals
The 2017 Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Research was awarded to Christoph J. Baranec, James Dean Brown and Jeffrey R. Kuhn.
