by Roy Gal | Aug 28, 2026 | Current, News, Research, Surveys, Top Stories, UH Press Release
et to launch on August 30, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will begin a mission to capture sweeping views of the universe on a scale never before possible, studying billions of stars, distant galaxies, and worlds beyond our solar system. Decades of University...
by Roy Gal | Feb 18, 2026 | News, Research, The Sun, Top Stories, UH Press Release
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have uncovered new clues about how energy moves through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, using one of nature’s rarest events as their window: total solar eclipses.
by Roy Gal | Dec 11, 2025 | News, Research, The Sun, Top Stories, UH Press Release
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the Sun. The UH-led team has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can map the Sun’s magnetic field in three dimensions with unprecedented...
by Roy Gal | Nov 18, 2025 | Instrumentation, News, Research, Top Stories, UH Press Release
A new chapter in automated astronomy has begun on Maunakea. The University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has launched initial science operations for Robo-AO-2, a robotic laser adaptive optics system now operating at the UH 2.2-meter telescope.
by Roy Gal | Nov 13, 2025 | News, Stars, Top Stories, UH Press Release
Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red giant by listening to its celestial “song.”
by Roy Gal | Nov 12, 2025 | News, Research, Stars, Top Stories, UH Press Release
Astronomers have captured one of the universe’s most dramatic moments—the instant a massive star exploded and the blast broke through the star’s surface
