Events
Events
Upcoming
Astronomy Talk: NASA: Exploring the Secrets of the Universe and Improving Life on Earth
06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Guest Speaker Thomas H. Zurbuchen Former Head of Science NASA Ever since NASA was established in 1958, expanding human knowledge of Earth, atmospheric phenomena, and space has been NASA’s priority. Discoveries made with both robotic and human exploration has changed how we think about the universe, our planet, and life beyond our planet. Dr. Zurbuchen […]
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Exploring the Ice Giants with Keck Observatory and Other Telescopes
05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Heidi Hammel, Vice President for Science, The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: During the late 1980s, our understanding of the local ice giants – Uranus and Neptune – was revolutionized by detailed images taken by the Voyager spacecraft. However, those images were static: brief snapshots in time […]
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The Year(s) Ahead: What’s on the Horizon for Astronomy?
05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: John O’Meara, Chief Scientist, W. M. Keck Observatory VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: The coming year promises to be an exciting one for astronomy on the ground and in space. With new instrumentation being delivered to Keck Observatory, and exciting missions like JWST in space, 2022 will deliver transformative new capabilities to astronomy. Looking even […]
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Santa Live!
Here Comes Santa… LIVE! We’re excited to bring Santa to the Waimea community this year as part of a fun, socially safe event to support families in need! Santa Live is a 30-minute interactive drive-in experience with live song and dance performances, a snow machine, and photo op. Santa will broadcast live from the North […]
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Hawaiʻi Science Walk
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 […]
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Planet 9 From Outer Space
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Mike Brown, Director, Caltech Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution (The Guy Who Killed Pluto) VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: In the past 175 years, more than 30 separate astronomers have suggested the existence of a giant planet beyond Neptune. They have always been wrong. In 2016, Dr. Michael Brown and Dr. Konstantin Batygin joined the […]
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Where I Explore, Where We Explore From the South Pole to Mars to Exoplanets
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Christine Moran, Deputy Manager, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Exploring is fundamental to being human, one of the cornerstones of why we do science, and why Dr. Moran has taken her personal career journey. What was it like living at the South Pole for almost a year? […]
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Lifting the Fog on the Early Universe
05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Steven Finkelstein, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Provost’s Teaching Fellow, University of Texas at Austin VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Just after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with a fog of cool hydrogen gas. When the first stars and galaxies began to form, energetic light from these objects heated and ionized this gas, removing […]
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Exploring Galaxies and Beyond
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Lauren Corlies, Deputy Head of Education and Public Outreach, Vera C. Rubin Observatory VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Galaxies turn gas into giant collections of stars that light up the universe. This simple statement of what happens with galaxies like our own leads to deeper questions of how this happens: How does gas flow into galaxies? […]
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Cosmic Fireworks
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Mansi Kasliwal, Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Our dynamic universe is adorned by cosmic fireworks: energetic and ephemeral beacons of light that are a million (nova) to a billion (supernova) times brighter than our Sun. Fireworks synthesize most elements in our periodic table – while supernovae synthesize the lighter […]
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Decoding the Contents of Distant Galaxies
05:00 pm - 06:15 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Alice Shapley, Professor and Vice Chair for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Our Milky Way is one of countless galaxies in the universe. Understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies remains one of the great challenges of modern cosmology. Key outstanding questions include: What drives stars to […]
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