by Roy Gal | Jul 31, 2023 | News, Research, The Solar System, UH Press Release
IfA astronomer István Szapudi has proposed a novel approach—a solar shield to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth, combined with a tethered, captured asteroid as a counterweight.
by Roy Gal | Jan 24, 2023 | Awards, Current, News, The Solar System, UH Press Release
The AAS has awarded UH Astronomer Karen Meech the Dannie Heineman Prize for her trailblazing contributions in astrophysics.
by Roy Gal | Oct 12, 2022 | News, Research, The Solar System, UH Press Release
NASA’s successful planetary defense test that sent the 1,260-pound DART spacecraft colliding into an asteroid on September 26 demonstrated the significant role Hawaiʻi astronomers and telescopes have in protecting Earth from a potential catastrophic asteroid...
by Roy Gal | Sep 25, 2022 | Current, News, Research, The Solar System, UH Press Release
NASA is preparing to crash a spacecraft the size of a school bus into an asteroid to assess if a deliberate impact can deflect objects on a collision course with Earth. The University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) is playing an important role in the space...
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...
by Roy Gal | Jan 27, 2022 | Current, News, The Solar System, UH Press Release
A state-of-the-art asteroid alert system operated by the IfA can now scan the entire dark sky every 24 hours for dangerous bodies that could plummet toward Earth. The NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) has expanded its reach to the...
