UH astronomers map distances to 56,000 galaxies
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.
IfA Plays Important Role in NASA DART Mission
NASA is preparing to crash a spacecraft the size of a school bus into an asteroid to assess if a deliberate impact can deflect objects on a collision course with Earth. The University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) is playing an important role in the space...
JWST Takes Its First Exoplanet Image
A team including UH astronomers has taken the first-ever direct exoplanet image with JWST.
UH astronomers produce catalog to extensively map universe
What does our universe look like at the largest size scales? A massive new catalog of high-fidelity distance estimates to more than 350 million galaxies reveals the soap-bubble structure of the universe in detail.