2012 Astronomy Lecture Series – Ben Zuckerman (UCLA)

Title: Violent events in rocky planetary systems: Implications for the fate of technological civilizations, including our own<a href=”http://personnel.physics.ucla.edu/directory/faculty/zuckerman”>View Astronomer’s Website</a>

Solar System Walk 2012

<strong>Fun and Learning for the Whole Family!</strong>Grab your Solar System Passport and take a stroll along the Big Island’s own planet walk.  On this scale-model journey, learn interesting facts about our cosmic neighborhood.  Start at the Sun booth stationed at Keck headquarters and end up visiting Pluto and the Kuiper Belt at CFHT headquarters. Keiki […]

2012 Astronomy Lecture Series – Jessica Lu (UH)

<strong>Stars born in extreme environments</strong>Many stars like the Sun were born in fairly quiet regions of the Milky Way galaxy.  Others formed in very extreme environments, including those around the supermassive black hole at the very center of the galaxy. Do stars and star clusters form differently in the extremely harsh environment near the Galactic […]

Using Shadows to Shed New Light

Gates Performing Arts Center, HPA Campus, Waimea (Kamuela, HI) Download PDF Guest Speaker: James L. Green, NASA Chief Scientist ASTRONOMY TALK | Current estimates are that over 150 million Americans viewed the Great American Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017 with another 60 million viewing it electronically from TV or the internet. It’s amazing to […]

Donation Drive for Volcano Victims

W. M. Keck Observatory Waimea Headquarters: 65-1120 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela, HI 96743 Monday May 14, 2018 – Tuesday May 29, 2018 08:30 am – 04:30 pm Download PDF PLEASE JOIN US IN HELPING HAWAII ISLAND VOLCANO VICTIMS Waimea, Hawaii – Hundreds of families in the Puna District on the east side of the Big Island […]

Shining Light on Gravity: Sometimes All That Shimmers IS Gold

Gates Performing Arts Center, HPA Campus, Waimea (Kamuela, HI) Guest Speaker: Ryan Foley, Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of California, Santa Cruz ASTRONOMY TALK | In 1916, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, a radiant form of energy similar to light, but caused by gravity. A century later, scientists detected the […]

Dragonflies, Dark Matter, and the Hunt for Ghostly Galaxies

Gates Performing Arts Center, HPA Campus, Waimea (Kamuela, HI) Guest Speaker: Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy and Divisional Director of Physical Sciences and Engineering at Yale University ASTRONOMY TALK | They are so ghostly that you can see right through them! They look unlike any other galaxies we’ve seen before. Learn about […]