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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 …

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W. M. Keck Observatory’s Chief of Technical Development  Peter Wizinowich Wins 2022 Joseph Weber Award

W. M. Keck Observatory’s Chief of Technical Development Peter Wizinowich Wins 2022 Joseph Weber Award

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Congratulations to Dr. Peter Wizinowich, chief of technical development at W. M. Keck Observatory, who has been …
Making the Nearly Invisible, Visible: Astronomers Trace the Gas that Breathes Life into Galaxies

Making the Nearly Invisible, Visible: Astronomers Trace the Gas that Breathes Life into Galaxies

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi— Astronomers have developed a groundbreaking new method of seeing the massive, but barely visible gas tanks that fuel …
"Black Widow" Star Devours Its Rapidly Circling Companion

“Black Widow” Star Devours Its Rapidly Circling Companion

Finding Represents the Shortest-period Black Widow Binary Found to Date Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – In black widow star systems, a rapidly …
Lānaʻi High School Students Win Telescope Time on Maunakea, Haleakalā

Lānaʻi High School Students Win Telescope Time on Maunakea, Haleakalā

An inaugural cohort of Maunakea Scholars at Lānaʻi High School have won highly competitive, professional observing time at some of …
Astronomers Discover Widest Separation of Brown Dwarf Pair to Date

Astronomers Discover Widest Separation of Brown Dwarf Pair to Date

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – A team of astronomers has discovered a rare pair of brown dwarfs that has the widest separation …
Surprisingly High Fraction of Dead Galaxies Found in Ancient Galactic City

Surprisingly High Fraction of Dead Galaxies Found in Ancient Galactic City

Why Cluster’s Galaxies are Unlike Those in All the Other Known Protoclusters is a Mystery, says UC Riverside-led Team Maunakea, …
Saturn’s High-altitude Winds Generate Extraordinary Aurorae, Study Finds

Saturn’s High-altitude Winds Generate Extraordinary Aurorae, Study Finds

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fueling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn. A University of Leicester-led …
Puffy Planets Lose Atmospheres, Become Super-Earths

Puffy Planets Lose Atmospheres, Become Super-Earths

Finding Represents First Detections of Atmospheric Loss in “Mini-Neptunes” Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers have identified two different cases of “mini-Neptune” …
Newly-Found Planets On The Edge Of Destruction

Newly-Found Planets On The Edge Of Destruction

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Three newly-discovered planets have been orbiting dangerously close to stars nearing the end of their lives. Out …
Astronomers Witness a Dying Star Reach Its Explosive End

Astronomers Witness a Dying Star Reach Its Explosive End

Two Hawai’i Telescopes Capture a Massive Star Moments Before Going Supernova Haleakalā and Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – For the very first …
Rocky Exoplanets Are Even Stranger Than We Thought

Rocky Exoplanets Are Even Stranger Than We Thought

A New Astrogeology Study Suggests That Most Nearby Rocky Exoplanets Are Quite Unlike Anything in Our Solar System Maunakea, Hawaiʻi …
Infant Planet Discovered by UH-Led Team Using Maunakea Telescopes

Infant Planet Discovered by UH-Led Team Using Maunakea Telescopes

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – One of the youngest planets ever found around a distant infant star has been discovered by an …