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Dandelion Supernova Revealed in 3-D

Dandelion Supernova Revealed in 3-D

Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – For nearly six months during the year 1181, people looked up to the skies to find a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
an artist's impression of exoplanet wasp-69b orbiting its host star. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko

WASP-69b: New Images Reveal Exoplanet’s Comet-Like Tail is Surprisingly Longer Than Previously Observed

Maunakea, Hawai‘i – New data from W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island confirms exoplanet WASP-69b, known for its …
odd radio circles, like orc 1 pictured above, are large enough to contain galaxies in their centers and reach hundreds of thousands of light years across. Credit: Jayanne English/University of Manitoba

Space Oddity: Uncovering the Origin of the Universe’s Rare Radio Circles

Written by Michelle Franklin, APRDirector of Communications, Physical Sciences at University of California, San Diego Maunakea, Hawai‘i– It’s not every …