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Newly-discovered planets will be ‘swallowed’ by their stars

Newly-discovered planets will be ‘swallowed’ by their stars

by Roy Gal | Jan 13, 2022 | Current, Discoveries, Exoplanets, News, Research, UH Press Release

IfA Astronomers are part of a team that recently discovered three planets orbiting dangerously close to stars nearing the ends of their lives.
A Rocky Planet Around One of Our Galaxy’s Oldest Stars

A Rocky Planet Around One of Our Galaxy’s Oldest Stars

by Roy Gal | Sep 6, 2021 | Current, Discoveries, Exoplanets, Galaxies

University of Hawaiʻi Astronomers Using W. M. Keck Observatory Discover Ancient Magma World Orbiting a Chemically Unusual Star “They should have sent a poet,” says Ellie Arroway in the film Contact as, suspended in outer space, she gazes upon a spiral...
Fastest Asteroid Around the Sun Discovered

Fastest Asteroid Around the Sun Discovered

by Roy Gal | Aug 23, 2021 | Current, Discoveries, News, The Solar System, UH Press Release

A team including University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) astronomer David Tholen has discovered an asteroid with the shortest known orbital period around the Sun – only 113 days.

UH-discovered comet could become visible in spring 2022

UH-discovered comet could become visible in spring 2022

by Roy Gal | Aug 12, 2021 | Discoveries, News, The Solar System, UH Press Release

A new comet discovered this summer by University of Hawaiʻi’s Pan-STARRS1 telescope atop Hakeakalā may become bright enough for spectators to see as it moves closer to Earth.

Massive COCONUTS exoplanet discovery led by UH grad student

Massive COCONUTS exoplanet discovery led by UH grad student

by Cynthia Giebink | Jul 27, 2021 | Current, Discoveries, Exoplanets

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets—planets beyond our solar system—but few have been directly imaged, because they are extremely difficult to see with existing telescopes.

Asteroids named after UH astronomers

Asteroids named after UH astronomers

by Roy Gal | Jul 23, 2021 | Current, Discoveries, News, Surveys, The Solar System

Naming asteroids is serious business.

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