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 | 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 | 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.
by Roy Gal | Aug 15, 2022 | Cosmology, Current, Galaxy Clustering, News, Research, Surveys, UH Press Release
What does our universe look like at the largest size scales? A massive new catalog of high-fidelity distance estimates to more than 350 million galaxies reveals the soap-bubble structure of the universe in detail.
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...
