by Roy Gal | Mar 5, 2024 | Discoveries, News, Research, Slider, Surveys, UH Press Release
IfA astronomers have uncovered the closest recorded occurrence of a star being torn apart by a supermassive black hole.
by Roy Gal | Feb 7, 2024 | ISM, Star Formation, News, Research, Stars, UH Press Release
The discovery of a powerful eruption on a Sun-like star more than 400 light years away has been unveiled in research co-authored by a University of Hawaiʻi astronomer.
by Roy Gal | Feb 1, 2024 | Awards, News, Research, The Solar System, UH Press Release
IfA astronomer Karen Meech has been named a fellow of the American Astronomical Society in recognition of her ground-breaking research on solar and extrasolar comets, the distribution of water in the solar system, organization of large international observing teams,...
by Roy Gal | Jan 21, 2024 | News, UH Press Release
John Jefferies, the founding Director of the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), passed away in Tucson on January 18th, at the age of 98. He had the remarkable vision of developing astronomy in Hawaiʻi at a time when the potential of the high...
by Roy Gal | Jan 7, 2024 | Current, Instrumentation, News, Research, UH Press Release
UH is in the initial stages of establishing a space engineering and instrument development center at the IfA facilities on the UH Hilo campus.
by Roy Gal | Dec 6, 2023 | News, Research, The Sun, UH Press Release
A team led by University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy Postdoctoral Researcher Kai Yang and Associate Professor Xudong Sun developed a model to explain “super flares” on other stars.
