by Roy Gal | Apr 16, 2019 | Discoveries, Exoplanets, News, Stars
A team of astronomers, including Nader Haghighipour from the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, have discovered a third planet in the circumbinary planetary system Kepler-47. This discovery cements the system’s title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds, and marks the first complete and dynamically full planetary system around a binary star.
by Roy Gal | Feb 19, 2019 | Awards, Exoplanets, News, Stars
Daniel Huber, an Assistant Astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA), has been selected for a prestigious 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship, one of 126 recipients across the U.S. and Canada.Awarded annually since 1955, the two-year...
by Roy Gal | Dec 17, 2018 | Discoveries, Exoplanets, News
A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant body ever observed in our solar system. It is the first known solar system object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the Sun.
The new object was announced on Monday, December 17, 2018, by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center and has been given the provisional designation 2018 VG18. The discovery was made by Carnegie Observaties’ Scott S. Sheppard, the University of Hawaiiʻs David Tholen, and Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo.