Category: News
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Tracking a Lone Star Speeding Across the Milky Way
Maunakea and Haleakalā, Hawaiʻi – It may seem like the Sun is stationary while the planets in its orbit are moving, but the Sun is actually orbiting around the Milky […]
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Sun-Like Stars Found Orbiting Hidden Companions
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Most stars in our universe come in pairs. While our own Sun is a loner, many stars like our Sun orbit similar stars, while a host of […]
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Dark Matter Flies Ahead of Normal Matter in Mega Galaxy Cluster Collision
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters’ vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal […]
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Fresh Meal Kits for Hawai’i Island Keiki
Mahalo Vibrant Hawai’i and Kaukau4Keiki for providing fresh, locally-sourced meal kits to students whose families are experiencing food scarcity during the summer break. We are grateful for the opportunity to volunteer, in […]
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New Catalog Showcases a Diverse Exoplanet Landscape with Strange, Exotic Worlds
A new, robust catalog is out featuring 126 confirmed and candidate exoplanets discovered with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in collaboration with W. […]
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Earth Twin or Evil Twin
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – The discovery of a planet similar in size to Venus that’s orbiting a star in the neighborhood of our solar system raises hopes that astronomers may someday […]
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Hot Meals at St. James Episcopal Church in Waimea
About 600 free hot meals each week – that’s how much St. James Episcopal Church in Waimea generously provides. Recently, Keckies joined Canada-France-Hawai’i Telescope to support this vital service to the community, […]
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Mālaʻai Garden Restoration
It’s an outdoor living classroom serving students for nearly two decades 🌱 At Mālaʻai Garden, the culinary garden at Waimea Middle School, students connect with ‘āina, culture, and community while […]
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Faintest Known Star System Orbiting the Milky Way Discovered from Hawaiʻi
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – A team of astronomers led by the University of Victoria and Yale University has detected an ancient star system traveling around our galaxy named Ursa Major III […]
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A Hundred Million Suns
Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Accounts of supernovae – exploding stars – go back thousands of years, and while we know today these events create the building blocks of life itself, there […]