UH astronomers, Maunakea telescope part of NASA’s $19.5M artificial star mission
IfA astronomers and the UH 88″ telescope on Maunakea will play a key role in a newly approved $19.5 million NASA space mission that will put an artificial “star” in orbit around the Earth.
Maunakea telescope captures extreme stellar eruption
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.
Explosion of supergiant star captured by UH telescope
A team of researchers used IfA’s Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) on Maui and W. M. Keck Observatory on Hawaiʻi Island to observe a red supergiant during the last 130 days leading up to its deadly detonation.
Unparalleled bounty of oscillating red giant stars detected
Oscillations in the Sun were first observed in the 1960s. But solar-like oscillations in thousands of stars weren’t detected until the French-led Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transits space telescope, which operated from 2006 to 2013.
UH to lead NASA space telescope study on nature of dying stars
How do stars die, explode and release heavy elements into the universe? These questions are the focus of an international team of scientists led by University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) postdoctoral researcher Chris Ashall.