by Roy Gal | May 23, 2024 | Current, Discoveries, Exoplanets, News, Research, UH Press Release
An international scientific team, with major contributions by astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), has announced a new catalog of 120 confirmed and six new candidate exoplanets. They were discovered using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet...
by Roy Gal | Apr 2, 2024 | News, Research, The Sun, UH Press Release
Award-winning astronomer Shadia Habbal from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) is gearing up to lead a world-class team of researchers at three North America locations to conduct in-depth observations during this rare event.
by Roy Gal | Mar 5, 2024 | Discoveries, News, Research, 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 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.
