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A sampling of articles
about the Institute for Astronomy and its staff
- 20 marvels of modern engineering (see #18, Gizmo Watch, September 8, 2008)
- Dark Energy Leaves Fingerprints on Early Light (SkyandTelescope.com, August 6, 2008)
- Tool will replicate chemistry of space (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, August 4, 2008)
- UH team sees ‘dark energy’ trail (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, August 4, 2008)
- ‘Einstein rings’ show gravity (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, August 4, 2008)
- Unmasking Dark Energy (Science Now, August 1, 2008)
- Icy asteroids (Science News, July 17, 2008)
- Weighing brown dwarfs (New York Times, June 6, 2008)
- UH scientists gauge 'failed stars' (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, June 3, 2008)
- Experts await telescope’s photos (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, April 10, 2008)
- UH galaxy-gazers win top astronomy awards (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, February 11, 2008)
- The Sky’s Not the Limit (Maui Weekly, January 28, 2008)
- Asteroid is due to make flyby of Earth (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, January 27, 2008)
- Galactic discovery has isle roots (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, January 21, 2008)
- Isle scopes help find 4-star system (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, January 20, 2008)
- Peanut-shaped comet likely formed in collision (New Scientist Space, January 15, 2008)
- Four Stars Found in Amazingly Tight Bunch (space.com, January 10, 2008)
- The Enduring Mysteries of the Outer Solar System (space.com, December 31, 2007)
- The Enduring Mysteries of Comets (space.com, December 24, 2007)
- Missing comet baffles scientists (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, December 15, 2007)
- UK plans withdrawal from telescope teams (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, November 25, 2007)
- UH scientists seek planets to study (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, November 23, 2007)
- Giant comet awes UH scientists (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, November 11, 2007)
- Comet impresses as it bursts at seams (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, October 27, 2007)
- Pluto close up (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, October 15, 2007)
- Maui telescope sharpens eye on universe (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, September 22, 2007)
- Cold planet: The many ice ages of Mars (The China Post, September 13, 2007)
- Wobbles of Mars Produced 40 Ice Ages (space.com, September 12, 2007)
- Big black holes caught eating neighbors (msnbc.com, August 10, 2007)
- Galactic cannibalism causes quasars' glow, Hawaii astronomers say (Honolulu Advertiser, August 5, 2007)
- UH duo ties quasar light, galaxy gas (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, August 4, 2007)
- UH astronomer is recognized for discovery about the universe (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, July 25, 2007)
- UH astronomer to share major cosmology prize (Honolulu Advertiser, July 24, 2007)
- Sixty Moons for Saturn (MSNBC, July 19, 2007)
- Pluto not largest of dwarf planets (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, July 5, 2007)
- Space
tug could divert killer asteroid (Associated
Press in Honolulu Advertiser, January 24, 2007)
- Ex-UH
scientist has plan to avert asteroid catastrophe (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, January 24, 2007)
- Magnetic
field detected on star (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, December
11, 2006)
- UH
scientist joins Pluto protest (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, September
4, 2006)
- Combing
the cosmos for killers (Honolulu Advertiser,
August 18, 2006)
- UH
discovery could mean change for solar system (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, August 16, 2006)
- Astronomer
hoping to hear ET phone home (Honolulu Advertiser,
July 28, 2006)
- New
telescope will hunt dangerous asteroids (NewScientist.com,
June 27, 2006)
- UH
ingenuity finds new planet (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, May
19, 2006)
- Maui telescope helps to detect star's planet (Honolulu
Advertiser, May
19, 2006)
- Haleakala
telescopes help find new planet (Maui
News, May
19, 2006)
- Hawaii
researchers seek interstellar wind (AP/Seattle
Post Intelligencer, April 17, 2006)
- UH
astronomers observe eclipse in Libyan desert (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, April 17, 2006)
- A
New Class of Comets Emerges Nearby (Washington
Post,
March 24, 2006)
- UH
comet discovery points to Earth origin (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, March 24, 2006)
- New
class of comets could be source of Earth's water (Honolulu
Advertiser, March 24, 2006)
- UH
astronomer wins award for women
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin, February 1, 2006)
- UH
clocks Milky Way's 1.4M mph voyage (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
January 12, 2006)
- An
Odd Pair of Stellar Runts (ScienceNOW
Daily News, January 11, 2006)
Link
through UH library
- Speeding
through space: Milky Way rolling at 1.4 million MPH (Hawaii
Tribune-Herald,
January 11, 2006)
- Planets
are formed by 'dust bunnies' (West
Hawaii Today,
January 10, 2006)
- UH
astronomer finds new comet (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, November
5, 2005)
- Mauna
Kea teams help solve cosmic mystery (Honolulu Advertiser, October
11, 2005)
- UH
astronomers track invisible pyrotechnics (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, October 6, 2005)
- Astronomy
public lecture series to start up Friday (Maui News, September 21, 2005)
- Big
Isle scopes plot star dying at far
edge of known universe (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, September
13, 2005)
- Telescopes
spot huge cosmic blast (Honolulu
Advertiser, September 13, 2005)
- Serpens
Hosts Solar Twins (Iran Daily, August 10, 2005)
- A
Solar Twin in Serpens? (Astronomy.com, August 3, 2005)
-
Deep Impact
- Students
get up-close look at Deep Impact (Maui
News, July 5, 2005)
- Big
Isle gazers pack UH-Hilo, Waimea facility for space show (Hawaii
Tribune-Herald, July 4, 2005)
- 'Woo-hoo'
heard at Maui viewing (Maui News, July 4, 2005)
- Deep
Impact (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, July 4, 2005)
- Big
hopes ride on tiny flash of Deep Impact (Honolulu
Advertiser, July 3, 2005)
- Deep Impact
could be a spectacular hit (Maui News, July
2, 2005)
- Island eyes on heavens for Deep Impact (Honolulu
Advertiser, June
27, 2005)
- Cosmic
collision to give Hawaii prime-time show (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, June
12, 2005)
- Celestial
fireworks on target for the isles (Maui
News, June 11,
2005)
- Observatories brace for Deep Impact (Honolulu
Advertiser, June
11, 2005)
- Star dust shows planet potential (Honolulu
Advertiser, June 15, 2005)
- UH
astronomers find pre-planet dust rings (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, June 14,
2005)
- UH
astronomer earns national recognition (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, May 6, 2005)
- Newly found Saturn moons may shed light on mystery (Honolulu
Advertiser, May 6, 2004)
See also
Astronomy,
BBC
News,
New Scientist,
Sky & Telescope, Wired,
Pravda
- UH astronomer earns national recognition (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, May 6, 2005)
- Twelve
new moons for Saturn (BBC News, May 4, 2005)
- What
Are the Odds? (Honolulu Advertiser, April 29,
2005)
- Star
Struck (Hana Hou: The Magazine
of Hawaiian Airlines,
April/May 2005)
- Corning
Delivers Mirror Blanks for the Pan-STARRS PS-1
Telescope (TMCnet.com, April 13, 2005)
- Science's
Doomsday Team vs. the Asteroids (Washington
Post, April 9, 2005)
- Telescope Taking School Club on Star Trek (Honolulu
Advertiser, April 4, 2005)
- UH Astronomer Wins
Free-rein Fellowship (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, March 21,
2005)
- 'Deep
Impact' on Hawaii and the Universe
(Maui News, February 27, 2005)
NOTE: The impact will take place
on the evening of July 3 HST.
- Hawaii
Scientists Win DOD Grants (Pacific Business News,
February 24, 2005)
- UH
Scientists Find Size Limit to Black Holes
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin, February 17, 2005)
- Astronomers
Contemplate Icy Volcanoes in Far Places (New
York Times,
December 9, 2004)
- Frozen
Heavenly Body Hints at a Warm Heart (New
Scientist, December
8, 2004)
- Volcanic
Activity Possible on Object Beyond Neptune (space.com,
December 8, 2004)
- First
Saturn Moon Close-Ups Arrive After Space Flyby (New
York Times, October 27, 2004)
- UH Astronomer
Wins Citation from NASA (Honolulu Advertiser,
October 12, 2004)
- When
Clusters Collide (New York Times, September 28, 2004)
- A
Cosmic Storm: When Galaxy Clusters Collide (Space.com, September
24, 2004)
- Now Showing: The Galactic Storm (Honolulu Advertiser, September
24, 2004)
- State Shines in Astronomy (Honolulu Advertiser, August 18, 2004)
- New
Images Show Signs of Planets Forming around Young Star (Scientific American.com, August 16,
2004)
- Star
Sheds Light for Astronomers (Honolulu
Advertiser,
August 13, 2004)
- Haleakala
Becomes Hot Spot for Astronomy (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
July 25, 2004)
- Prototype
of Asteroid Spotter is Maui Bound (Maui
News, June 22, 2004)
- The
Patina of Age (New York Times, May 25, 2004)
- Colors
Reveal Ages of Asteroids (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, May 21, 2004)
- Asteroids
Change Colour With Age (Universe Today, May 20,
2004)
- 'Star'
UH Students Awarded
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin, May 12, 2004)
- Coming
Soon: Asteroid Hunters (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
April 25, 2004)
- Scoping
Out the Sky (Honolulu Advertiser, April
17, 2004)
- Big
Island Telescope Sees Star with Dust
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin, February 27, 2004)
- UH
Find of Two New Jupiter Moons Is Confirmed (Honolulu
Advertiser,
February 5, 2004)
- UH
Scientist Helps Study Supernova (Honolulu Advertiser,
January 8, 2004)
- Deep
Impact (Hawaii Business, January 2004)
- Maui
Makes Finals
for New Telescope (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin,
December
10, 2003)
- Large
Camera Delights
Astronomers (BBC,
November
10, 2003)
- Hilo
Telescope
Sees ‘Big
Picture’ in
Skies (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin,
November 3,
2003)
- Old
Sol Ripe for Viewing (Hawaii Tribune-Herald,
October 31, 2003)
- UH
Space Station Camera To Map All Coral on Earth (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
October 26, 2003)
- Geomagnetic
Storm Hurtling toward Earth (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, October 25,
2003)
- UH
Hopes To Land Ultimate Telescope (Honolulu Advertiser, October 23, 2003)
- Recovered
Moons (Astronomy.com, October
4, 2003)
- A
Bizarro "Cometoid" (Sky and Telescope, September
24, 2003)
- UH
to Build Astronomy Research Facility on Maui (Maui News, July 12, 2003)
- UH
to Get $5 Million to Study Life in Universe (Honolulu Advertiser,
July 7, 2003)
- Prize
for UH Astronomer Opens International Doors (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
May 28, 2003)
- UH Plans
Observatory to Spot Rogue Asteroids (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
May 25, 2003)
- More moons of Jupiter and Saturn
2003
- Haleakala's
Astronomy Role Growing (Honolulu Advertiser, March 9, 2003)
- UH Finds
7 More Jupiter Moons (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, March 6, 2003)
- Astronomers
Spot New Jupiter Moons (Honolulu Advertiser, March 6, 2003)
- Mauna
Kea Telescope Gets World's Biggest Camera (Honolulu Advertiser,
March 2, 2003)
- UH
Astronomy Can Blow Away Asteroids (Honolulu Advertiser, October
10, 2002)
- UH
to Plan Asteroid Telescope (Honolulu Advertiser, October
9, 2002)
- UH Enlisted
to Spot Killer Asteroids(Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
October 9, 2002)
- Astronomers
to Develop New Telescopes for "Killer Asteroid" Search
(SpaceRef.com, October 8, 2002)
- Extrasolar
Planets (Science Friday, September 20, 2002)
- UH
Readies to Defend Telescope Proposal (Hawaii Tribune-Herald,
July 25, 2002)
- UH
Astronomers Discover 18 Minicomets (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
July 26, 2002)
- Comet
Crumbles (CNN.com (uly 25, 2002)
- Another
One Bites the Dust (Sky & Telescope, July 24, 2002)
- Comet
Breaks into 20 Pieces (Astronomy.com, July 24, 2002)
- Planet
Outside Solar System Filmed (New York Times /Associated Press,
May 24, 2002)
- Adaptive
Optics at UH Wins Award (Honolulu Advertiser, May 23, 2002)
- UH Photo
May Be First to Show a Planet Outside Solar System (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, May 22, 2002)
- Brown Dwarf
Spotted Close to Star (spaceflightnow, May 22, 2002)
- Mysterious
Object Might be First Extrasolar Planet Photographed (Space.com,
May 22,2002)
- New
Satellites of Jupiter 2001-2002
- Scientists
gather on Big Island to debate brown dwarfs (Honolulu Advertiser,
May 17, 2002)
- Isle
astronomer receives award for work in optics (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
May 13, 2002)
- Abundance
of Cometlike Objects With Moons Stuns Experts (New York Times,
April 23, 2002)
- Hawai'i
Researchers Find Dancing Asteroids in Solar System (Honolulu
Advertiser, April 19, 2002)
- UH Scientists
Receive$2 Million To Study Suns Activities (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
April 9, 2002)
- 3 UH
Research Units Backed for Possible Economic Payoffs (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, April 2, 2002)
- UH
Astronomers Peer Back to Universes Infancy (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
March 9, 2002)
- Fountains
and Bubbles: New Cosmic Mysteries (New York Times, January 15, 2002)
- Hawaii
Scientists Find Star, Dust Disk (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
January 8, 2002)
- UH
Astronomers Find Planet-like Object (Honolulu Advertiser,
January 7, 2002)
- Astronomy
Institute Gleaming (Honolulu Advertiser, December 13, 2001)
- What
Lurks in the Outer Solar System? (Science@NASA, September 13, 2001)
- Astronomers
Gain New View of Helium Gas Leftover from the Big Bang (Ku
Lama, August 31, 2001)
- Astronomy:
Endless Clear Skies (Nature, June 7, 2001)
- Pluto's
Little Brother (Astronomy.com, May 27, 2001)
- Pluto
Has New, Far Out Peer (CNN.com, May 24, 2001)
- New
World Rivals Pluto (BBC News, May 24, 2001)
- Discovery
Brightens Odds of Finding Another (Space.com, May 23, 2001)
- Comets
May Be Integral Component of Earth (Honolulu Advertiser,
April 8, 2001)
- Suck It In,
Spit It Out (Discover, April 2001)
- New
Tool Will Clear Telescopes Sight (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
March 22, 2001)
- Pluto
As a Planet Cast in Doubt or Space
Center Puts Pluto's Planethood in Doubt (Associated Press, January
26, 2001)
- Moons
of Jupiter
- A Kuiper Belt Giant (Sky & Telescope, January 3, 2001)
- Helping to Shed
Light on the Sun: Observatory at Summit Contributes Pieces to Scientific
Puzzle (Maui News, January 2, 2001)
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