Home
    • Our Institute
      • Home
      • About
      • Contact Us
      • Benefactors
      • Employment
      • Calendar
      • Talks
      • Weather Links
    • Outreach
      • Outreach Overview
      • Public Events
      • News Stories
      • Monthly Star Chart
      • HI STAR Program
    • People
      • People Overview
      • Directory
      • Faculty
      • Grad Students
      • Postdocs and Researchers
      • Cooperating Graduate Faculty
      • Visitors
    • Education
      • Education Overview
      • Graduate
      • Undergraduate
      • REU Program
      • Library
    • Facilities
      • Facilities Overview
      • Mānoa
      • Maui
      • Hilo
      • IRTF
      • ATLAS
      • Pan-STARRS
      • UH88
      • UKIRT
    • Observatories
      • Observatories Overview
      • Maunakea
      • Maunaloa
      • Haleakalā
    • Research
      • Research Overview
      • Cosmology
      • Exoplanets
      • Galaxies & Galaxy Clustering
      • Instrument Development
      • ISM and Star Formation
      • Solar System
      • Stars
      • Sun
      • Surveys
    • Projects
      • Projects Overview
      • The Accretion History of AGN
      • Hawaii-Two-0
      • Solar Wind Sherpas
      • Solar Physics Journal Club
Select Page
UH-discovered Earth Trojan asteroid is largest to date

UH-discovered Earth Trojan asteroid is largest to date

by Roy Gal | Feb 2, 2022 | Current, News, Research, Surveys, The Solar System, UH Press Release

An asteroid bigger than the UH Mānoa campus, discovered by our Pan-STARRS telescope, is only the second-known object of its kind ever found. The near-Earth object, asteroid 2020 XL5, is an Earth Trojan asteroid, which is an asteroid companion to Earth that orbits the...
NASA awards $15M for asteroid hunting telescopes on Maui

NASA awards $15M for asteroid hunting telescopes on Maui

by Roy Gal | Oct 24, 2021 | Current, News, Research, Surveys, UH Press Release

The IfA received a $15 million NASA grant to continue its world-leading efforts to discover Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs).

Asteroids named after UH astronomers

Asteroids named after UH astronomers

by Roy Gal | Jul 23, 2021 | Current, Discoveries, News, Surveys, The Solar System

Naming asteroids is serious business.

Lunar eclipse aids in locating 3 Near-Earth asteroids

Lunar eclipse aids in locating 3 Near-Earth asteroids

by Roy Gal | Jun 7, 2021 | Current, Discoveries, Surveys, The Solar System

Every night, the University of Hawaiʻi Pan-STARRS telescopes on Hakeakalā scan the sky for Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), asteroids or comets that may come close to or even hit Earth in the future.

30-year stellar survey cracks mysteries of galaxy’s giant planets

30-year stellar survey cracks mysteries of galaxy’s giant planets

by Roy Gal | May 26, 2021 | Current, Surveys, The Solar System

Current and former astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have wrapped up a massive collaborative study that set out to determine if most solar systems in the universe are similar to our own.

Breakthrough: UH team successfully locates incoming asteroid

Breakthrough: UH team successfully locates incoming asteroid

by Roy Gal | Jun 25, 2019 | News, Surveys

For the first time, astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi have demonstrated that their ATLAS and Pan-STARRS survey telescopes can provide sufficient warning to move people away from the impact site of an incoming asteroid.

« Older Entries

Categories

Manoa

Institute for Astronomy
2680 Woodlawn Drive
Honolulu, HI 96822-1839
USA

Voice:+1 808 956-8312
Fax:+1 808 988-2790

Director’s Office: +1 808 956-8566

Hilo

Institute for Astronomy
640 North A‘ohōkū Place, #209
Hilo, HI 96720-2700
USA

Voice:+1 808 932-2300
Fax: +1 808 933-0737