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Astronomers Tune Into the Music of a Nearby Star Unlocking a Surprising Discovery

Astronomers Tune Into the Music of a Nearby Star Unlocking a Surprising Discovery

By analyzing subtle stellar vibrations, researchers using the Keck Planet Finder uncovered hidden interior structures that challenge long-standing models Maunakea, …
Evidence of Dark Matter-Free Dwarf Galaxy Challenges Conventional Galaxy Formation Models

Evidence of Dark Matter-Free Dwarf Galaxy Challenges Conventional Galaxy Formation Models

Galaxies may have more variety in how they form and evolve than previously thought Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers using W …
Astronomers Trace Earth-Crossing Asteroid to Surprising Origin

Astronomers Trace Earth-Crossing Asteroid to Surprising Origin

2024 YR4 LINKED TO REGION NOT KNOWN FOR COLLISION COURSE OBJECTS Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory …

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Rocky Planet Around a White Dwarf Resembles Earth — 8 Billion Years From Now

Rocky Planet Around a White Dwarf Resembles Earth — 8 Billion Years From Now

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a …
Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet

Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in …
Tracking a Lone Star Speeding Across the Milky Way

Tracking a Lone Star Speeding Across the Milky Way

Maunakea and Haleakalā, Hawaiʻi – It may seem like the Sun is stationary while the planets in its orbit are …
Sun-Like Stars Found Orbiting Hidden Companions

Sun-Like Stars Found Orbiting Hidden Companions

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Most stars in our universe come in pairs. While our own Sun is a loner, many stars …
Dark Matter Flies Ahead of Normal Matter in Mega Galaxy Cluster Collision

Dark Matter Flies Ahead of Normal Matter in Mega Galaxy Cluster Collision

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters’ vast …
Fresh Meal Kits for Hawai'i Island Keiki

Fresh Meal Kits for Hawai’i Island Keiki

Mahalo Vibrant Hawai’i and Kaukau4Keiki for providing fresh, locally-sourced meal kits to students whose families are experiencing food scarcity during the summer …
New Catalog Showcases a Diverse Exoplanet Landscape with Strange, Exotic Worlds

New Catalog Showcases a Diverse Exoplanet Landscape with Strange, Exotic Worlds

A new, robust catalog is out featuring 126 confirmed and candidate exoplanets discovered with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration …
Exoplanet Gliese 12b

Earth Twin or Evil Twin

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – The discovery of a planet similar in size to Venus that’s orbiting a star in the neighborhood …
Hot Meals at St. James Episcopal Church in Waimea

Hot Meals at St. James Episcopal Church in Waimea

About 600 free hot meals each week – that’s how much St. James Episcopal Church in Waimea generously provides. Recently, …
Mālaʻai Garden Restoration

Mālaʻai Garden Restoration

It’s an outdoor living classroom serving students for nearly two decades 🌱 At Mālaʻai Garden, the culinary garden at Waimea …
an image of uma3/u1, a tiny cluster of ancient stars captured by cfht. Credit: CFHT/S. Gwyn

Faintest Known Star System Orbiting the Milky Way Discovered from Hawaiʻi

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – A team of astronomers led by the University of Victoria and Yale University has detected an ancient …
sn 2023ixf occurred in a spiral arm of the pinwheel galaxy near several star-forming regions. Credit: Travis Deyoe, Mount Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona

A Hundred Million Suns

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Accounts of supernovae – exploding stars – go back thousands of years, and while we know today …