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Building Hawaiʻi’s STEM Future: Meet the First Kamaʻāina Pathways Intern

Building Hawaiʻi’s STEM Future: Meet the First Kamaʻāina Pathways Intern

Building a strong, Hawaiʻi-grounded STEM workforce begins with creating meaningful opportunities for local students to learn, grow, and contribute. The …
Keck Observer and Astrophysicist Alex Filippenko awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize for work on supernovae

Keck Observer and Astrophysicist Alex Filippenko awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize for work on supernovae

Photo courtesy of Christopher Prentiss Michel Observer Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley’s expert on supernovae and black holes, has been named …
Astronomers Determine Brown Dwarf Age Using Tiny Stellar Pulsations

Astronomers Determine Brown Dwarf Age Using Tiny Stellar Pulsations

Results Test Brown Dwarf Theory challenging astrophysicists Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, …

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ASTRONOMERS FIND PLANET ORBITING NEARBY STAR

ASTRONOMERS FIND PLANET ORBITING NEARBY STAR

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (June 1st, 1998) Two teams of astronomers this week reported that one of the sun’s nearest neighbors—a …
Planet Construction Zone

Planet Construction Zone

WASHINGTON, D.C (April 1st, 1998) NASA astronomers using the new Keck II telescope in Hawai’i have discovered what appears to …