by Roy Gal | Oct 12, 2022 | News, Research, Slider, 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 26, 2022 | Cosmology, Galaxy Clustering, News, Research, Slider, UH Press Release
How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by IfA astronomers Brent Tully and Ehsan Kourkchi has assembled the largest-ever compilation of high-precision galaxy distances, called Cosmicflows-4.
by Roy Gal | Sep 25, 2022 | Current, News, Research, Slider, 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...
