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 | Nov 30, 2018 | News, Stars
A supernova discovered by an international group of astronomers has provided an unprecedented look at the first moments of a violent stellar explosion.
