Join W. M. Keck Observatory and fellow Maunakea Observatories for the 2nd Annual AstroDay West in Kailua-Kona – a celebration of astronomy & community! Big Mahalo to Kona Commons, who is hosting the space at the former Sports Authority at Kona Commons for a second year in a row. In addition to many of the […]
Honokaa People’s Theater45-3574 Mamane St Honokaa, HI 96727 Download Poster Guest Speaker: Andrea Ghez, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles ; UCLA Galactic Center Group Director ASTRONOMY TALK | Discover this year’s exciting new developments in unraveling the mysteries of supermassive black holes. Through 20 years of high-resolution imaging, […]
WAIMEA HEADQUARTERS: 65-1120 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela HI 96743 You’re invited! Come join us as we open the doors of our Waimea Headquarters to the community for a fun, family-friendly event filled with cosmic activities and a star-studded program featuring renowned astronomers and engineers. Bring your keiki, ohana, friends, and neighbors to experience a variety of […]
Gates Performing Arts Center, HPA Campus, Waimea (Kamuela, HI) Download PDF Guest Speaker: Charles Elachi, Caltech Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science, Emeritus, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director 2001- 2016 ASTRONOMY TALK | Over the last 50 years, JPL spacecraft have visited every planet in our solar system and roved for more than 14 […]
Gates Performing Arts Center, HPA Campus, Waimea Download PDF Brian Day, Lead for Lunar and Planetary Mapping and Modeling, Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), NASA Ames Research Center ASTRONOMY TALK – Brian Day will give a demonstration of the lunar and planetary mapping and modeling portals his team developed at NASA. He will […]
Mauna Lani Bay Hotel: 68-1400 Mauna Lani Drive, Kohala Coast, Hawaii – Hale Hoaloha Pavilion Download PDF Theoretical astrophysicist Kip Thorne, 2017 Nobel Physics Prize Laureate, Executive Producer of Interstellar, Caltech Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) KECK OBSERVATORY ASTRONOMY TALK: How scientifically accurate is the […]
Celebrate Big Island Science & Astronomy The Maunakea Observatories’ AstroDay in Hilo is back—and this year, you can attend in person! This annual celebration of Hawaiʻi science and astronomy will feature hands-on activities, games, giveaways, and demonstrations for all ages. Our Keck Observatory staff will be giving away build-your-own spectrograph kits, an instrument astronomers use […]
Welcome to the Hawaiʻi Science Walk! Join scientists from around Hawaiʻi as we explore our island, our world, and the vast expanses of space. Each video describes research being done here in Hawaiʻi that broadens our understanding of our world. Combined, this research helps astronomers using the Maunakea Observatories and the James Webb Space Telescope […]
GUEST SPEAKER: David Ciardi, Chief Scientist, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Launched in 2009, NASA’s Kepler revolutionized our understanding of other worlds by discovering thousands of exoplanet systems. 10 years after Kepler ended, NASA launched TESS to continue the revolution by finding planets around brighter, nearby stars. Ground-based telescopes have been critical to […]
GUEST SPEAKER: Elizabeth Tasker, Associate Professor, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (ISAS) VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: We thought we understood the planets of our solar system until we discovered new worlds beyond our own Sun – planets the size of Jupiter with orbits completed in an Earth day, planets with […]
GUEST SPEAKER: Chas Beichman, Executive Director, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: The exoplanet revolution began in 1995 with the Nobel-Prize winning discovery of a “Hot Jupiter” orbiting the sun-like star 51 Pegasi. Thousands of planets have since been detected in the succeeding two decades, many of them either found by or validated […]
GUEST SPEAKER: Wen-fai Fong, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Join us as Wen-fai Fong describes the universe’s fastest explosions. When we look at the night sky, we see a static universe. However, astronomical observational surveys have revealed that our universe is, in fact, ever-changing. This “transient” sky […]
