by Roy Gal | Sep 20, 2023 | Cosmology, Current, News, Research, UH Press Release
A University of Hawaiʻi astronomer is co-leading a team that was recently awarded $11 million to develop critical tools for NASA’s trailblazing Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
by Roy Gal | Sep 5, 2023 | Cosmology, Discoveries, Galaxy Clustering, News, Research, UH Press Release
A University of Hawaiʻi-led discovery of an immense bubble 820 million light years from Earth is believed to be a fossil-like remnant of the birth of the universe.
by Roy Gal | Jun 30, 2023 | Cosmology, Research, Surveys, UH Press Release
Observing billions of galaxies across more than a third of the sky and building a 3D map of the universe are all part of the Euclid mission that the European Space Agency launched with its Euclid satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Euclid’s dataset is getting a...
by Roy Gal | Mar 15, 2023 | Cosmology, Current, News, Research, Surveys, UH Press Release
The largest data release of relatively nearby supernovae (colossal explosions of stars) , containing three years of data from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy’s (IfA) Pan-STARRS telescope atop Haleakalā on Maui, is publicly available via the Young...
by Roy Gal | Feb 15, 2023 | Cosmology, News, Research, UH Press Release
Searching through existing data spanning 9 billion years, a team of researchers led by scientists at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has uncovered the first evidence of “cosmological coupling” –a newly predicted phenomenon in Einstein’s theory of...
by Roy Gal | Jan 31, 2023 | Cosmology, Current, Galaxy Clustering, News, Research, Surveys, UH Press Release
IfA Astronomer Eric Baxter co-authored new research that traces the mass distribution in the universe in three dimensions.