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Mauna Kea telescopes detect light from merging quasars | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Advertiser· 12 hours agoAstronomers have used a pair of Mauna Kea telescopes to shed light on one of the universe’s earliest...
How 2 quasars at the dawn of time could be a Rosetta stone for the early universe
Space via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoThe two active supermassive black holes are the most distant pair of quasars ever seen and shed more...
New TMT team changes approach to get community support, but is it too late for the telescope?
Hawaii News Now· 6 days agoIt’s been five years since thousands of protesters blocked the start of construction of the Thirty...
Ed Stone, JPL director and top scientist on Voyager mission, dies at 88
Los Angeles Times· 7 days agoEd Stone, the scientist who guided NASA’s breakthrough Voyager mission to the outer planets for 50...
Where to find the Brecken Spectre in Hawaiʻi
KHON 2 Honolulu· 1 day agoImagine you’re hiking up a tall mountain in Hawaiʻi early one morning. The air is cool, and the sun is just rising behind you.
This long-studied star is actually a stellar duo: 'We were absolutely stunned'
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA young star that astronomers have studied for decades has been found to be part of a duo, encircled...
NASA’s Webb Reveals Long-Studied Star Is Actually Twins
NASA· 5 days agoScientists recently got a big surprise from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope when they turned the observatory toward a group of young stars called WL 20. The region has been studied since the ...
Edward Stone, who guided NASA’s Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88
Washington Post· 22 hours agoEdward C. Stone, who opened a window on the farthest reaches of the solar system while serving as the chief scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, supervising a pair of spindly, plutonium-powered ...
Neptune-like planet 'Phoenix' baffles astronomers with its atmosphere
Astronomy Magazine· 1 day agoAstronomers have discovered a planet beyond our solar system that’s so cozy with its host star, its...
Your Hawaiʻi freshwater guide for fishing on each island
KHON 2 Honolulu· 4 days agohe six major Hawaiian islands — Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui, Lāna‘i, Moloka‘i and Hawai‘i — have streams...