Category: News
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Astronomers See ‘Cosmic Ring of Fire,’ 11 Billion Years Ago
Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers have captured an image of a super rare type of galaxy – described as a “cosmic ring of fire” – as it existed 11 billion years […]
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Astronomers Confirm Existence of Two Giant Newborn Planets in PDS 70 System
Maunakea, Hawaii – New evidence shows the first-ever pictures capturing the birth of a pair of planets orbiting the star PDS 70 are in fact authentic. Using a new infrared […]
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Hawaii Astronomers Help Decipher Rhythm Among Young Stars
Maunakea, Hawaii – By “listening” to the “beating hearts” of stars, an international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Hawai’i Institute for Astronomy (UH IfA), detected a […]
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Director’s Message: COVID-19
UPDATE: OCTOBER 19, 2020 Aloha Kākou, The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a major impact on us all, and the world of research astronomy is no exception. Despite the many […]
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Newly Discovered Exoplanet Dethrones Former King of Kepler-88 Planetary System
Maunakea, Hawaii – Our solar system has a king. The planet Jupiter, named for the most powerful god in the Greek pantheon, has bossed around the other planets through its […]
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Astronomers Catch Rare Eclipse of a Double Brown Dwarf System
Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers working on “first light” data from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a chance discovery that led to the identification of a rare eclipse of […]
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Distant Giant Planets Form Differently Than ‘Failed Stars’
Maunakea, Hawaii – A team of astronomers led by Brendan Bowler of The University of Texas at Austin has probed the formation process of giant exoplanets and brown dwarfs, a […]
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Astronomers Discover Unusual Monster Galaxy in the Very Early Universe
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has found an unusual monster galaxy that existed about 12 billion years ago, […]
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Astronomers Detect Large Amounts of Oxygen in Ancient Star’s Atmosphere
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers from the University of California San Diego, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of Cambridge have detected large […]
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Astronomers Discover Class of Strange Objects Near Our Galaxy’s Enormous Black Hole
Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers from UCLA and W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered four more bizarre objects at the center of our galaxy, not far from the supermassive black hole […]