Category: News
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Astronomers Spot Distant Galaxy Group Driving Ancient Cosmic Makeover
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers funded in part by NASA has found the farthest galaxy group identified to date. With the help of W. M. Keck Observatory […]
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The ‘Cores’ of Massive Galaxies Found to Have Formed A Billion Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
Maunakea, Hawaii – A distant galaxy more massive than our Milky Way — with more than a trillion stars — has revealed that the ‘cores’ of massive galaxies in the […]
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Unpredicted Stellar Black Hole Discovered
Maunakea, Hawaii – Our Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes – cosmic bodies formed by the collapse of massive stars and so dense even […]
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New Image Offers Close-up View of Interstellar Comet
Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers at Yale University are getting a fresh glimpse of a visitor from another star; using W. M. Keck Observatory, they captured a new image of 2I/Borisov, […]
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NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa
Maunakea, Hawaii – Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s icy surface, […]
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Hawaii Communities Catch Planet Mercury Journey Across the Sun
Hundreds of astronomy fans attend Maunakea Observatories Mercury Transit Viewing Parties to See Rare Event Hawaii Island – It’s an astronomical phenomenon that won’t be visible from Hawaii again for […]
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Astronomers Catch Wind Rushing Out of Galaxy
Researchers Directly Observe for the First Time a Huge Outflow of Gas Extending Far Beyond a Galaxy Maunakea, Hawaii – Exploring the influence of galactic winds from a distant galaxy […]
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A Crisis in Cosmology
Maunakea, Hawaii – A group of astronomers led by University of California, Davis has obtained new data that suggest the universe is expanding more rapidly than previously thought. The study […]
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Massive Filaments Fuel the Growth of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international group of scientists led by Hideki Umehata of the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, a branch of Japan’s largest scientific research organization, has made detailed […]
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Oldest Galaxy Protocluster Forms “Queen’s Court”
Maunakea, Hawaii – Using multiple Maunakea Observatories – the Subaru Telescope, W. M. Keck Observatory, and Gemini Observatory – an international team of astronomers has discovered the earliest protocluster ever […]