by Roy Gal | Nov 3, 2022 | Current, Public Events
Join us for a live stream of the total lunar eclipse on Monday night, Nov. 7, 11PM – 2AM. We will have live telescopic views of the eclipse and astronomer q&a in the chat! Find the stream on our YouTube channel https://youtube.com/uhifa
by Roy Gal | Oct 31, 2022 | Public Events
Keiki and their ‘ohana are invited to explore the universe at Kona’s annual AstroDay celebration, Saturday, November 5, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Kona Commons Shopping Center in Kailua-Kona. Organized by the Mauna Kea Astronomy Outreach Committee, this free,...
by Roy Gal | Oct 21, 2022 | Public Events
Join us on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 for a virtual talk on “Why Do We Need Both Ground- and Space-Based Telescopes” as part of the 2022 Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival. Details and registration at...
by Roy Gal | Oct 12, 2022 | News, Research, Slider, The Solar System, UH Press Release
NASA’s successful planetary defense test that sent the 1,260-pound DART spacecraft colliding into an asteroid on September 26 demonstrated the significant role Hawaiʻi astronomers and telescopes have in protecting Earth from a potential catastrophic asteroid...
by Roy Gal | Sep 26, 2022 | Cosmology, Galaxy Clustering, News, Research, Slider, UH Press Release
How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by IfA astronomers Brent Tully and Ehsan Kourkchi has assembled the largest-ever compilation of high-precision galaxy distances, called Cosmicflows-4.
