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Separating true stars from wannabes
Astronomers have shown what separates real stars from the wannabes. Not in Hollywood, but out in the universe. “When we look up and see the stars shining at night, we are seeing only part of the...
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Shine bright like a diamond: Team obtains best-ever infrared maps of...
Top: A visible light image of Arp 84 taken by the Pan-STARRS telescope on top of Haleakalā on the island of Maui. Bottom: A composite far-infrared image of the same galaxy taken by the PACS instrument...
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Exoplanet family tree gains a new branch
Planets are assembled and sorted into two distinct size classes. First, the rocky cores of planets are formed from smaller pieces. Then, the gravity of the planets attracts hydrogen and helium gas....
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Dava Sobel and Galileo’s Daughters explore history and the stars
Dava Sobel Author Dava Sobel and the musical group Galileo’s Daughters will be featured at two free events June 27 and 28. Sobel is the acclaimed author of Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius...
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UH astronomer to build sharper eyes for Maunakea telescope
The University of Hawaiʻi‘s 2.2 meter (88-inch) telescope on Maunakea will soon be producing images nearly as sharp as those from the Hubble Space Telescope, thanks to a new instrument using the...
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The cosmic velocity web
The cosmic velocity web is represented by surfaces of knots in red and surfaces of filaments in grey. Credit: Daniel Pomarede, Yehuda Hoffman, R. Brent Tully and Helene Courtois. The cosmic web—the...
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Astronomers discover variability in the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades Cluster
Pleiades star cluster image from Kepler Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA/Aarhus University/T. White The brightest members of the Pleiades cluster form a spectacular group of naked-eye stars that...
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Small asteroid or comet ‘visits’ from beyond the solar system
This schematic diagram of our solar system shows the dramatic path of A/2017 U1 (dashed line) as it crossed the plane of the planets (known as the ecliptic), and then turned and headed back out. Image...
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An interstellar visitor unmasked
In October, astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) made a stunning discovery with the Pan-STARRS1 telescope—the first interstellar object seen passing through...
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Visualizing galaxy orbits in the local supercluster
Orbits of galaxies in the Local Supercluster. Credit: Brent Tully. A team of astronomers from Maryland, Hawaiʻi, Israel and France has produced the most detailed map ever of the orbits of galaxies in...
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Discovery of extreme ‘natural telescope’ magnification led by UH astronomer
The quiescent galaxy eMACSJ1341-QG-1 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The yellow dotted line traces the boundaries of the galaxy’s gravitationally lensed image. The inset on the upper left shows...
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UH astronomers to uncover the secrets of stars and exoplanets with NASA’s...
Artist’s impression of NASA‘s TESS. (Image credit/copyright: NASA/GSFC) NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on April 18, its newest telescope to search for planets beyond our...
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UH astronomy graduate students earn worldwide recognition
Four current and former doctoral students from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been recognized for outstanding research. Megan Ansdell Megan Ansdell, who completed...
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UH ATLAS telescope pinpoints meteorite impact prediction
Impact time and location predictions for asteroid 2018 LA. The long blue bar shows the predictions prior to ATLAS data being obtained. The much shorter red bar in the image shows the prediction...
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Astronomers find a famous exoplanet’s doppelgänger
Image of the 2MASS 0249 system taken with Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope’s infrared camera WIRCam. (Credit: T. Dupuy, M. Liu) When it comes to extrasolar planets, appearances can be deceiving....
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While seeking Planet X, astronomers find a distant solar system object
An artist’s conception of distant Planet X, which could be shaping the orbits of smaller extremely distant objects. (Credit: Carnegie Institution for Science, Roberto Molar Candanosa/Scott Sheppard)...
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UH astronomer’s planet prediction verified in Star Wars-like system
Artist’s rendition of the Kepler-47 circumbinary planet system with its three planets. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle A team of astronomers, including one from the Institute for Astronomy...
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UH astronomer and team map vast void in cosmic neighborhood
A smoothed rendition of the structure surrounding the Local Void. The Milky Way galaxy lies at the origin of the red-green-blue orientation arrows (each 200 million lightyears in length). It is at a...
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