Events
Events
Upcoming
Hawaiʻi Science Walk
Welcome to the Hawaiʻi Science Walk! Join scientists from around Hawaiʻi as we explore our island, our world, and the vast expanses of space. Each video describes research being done here in Hawaiʻi that broadens our understanding of our world. Combined, this research helps astronomers using the Maunakea Observatories and the James Webb Space Telescope […]
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Planet 9 From Outer Space
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Mike Brown, Director, Caltech Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution (The Guy Who Killed Pluto) VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: In the past 175 years, more than 30 separate astronomers have suggested the existence of a giant planet beyond Neptune. They have always been wrong. In 2016, Dr. Michael Brown and Dr. Konstantin Batygin joined the […]
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Where I Explore, Where We Explore From the South Pole to Mars to Exoplanets
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Christine Moran, Deputy Manager, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Exploring is fundamental to being human, one of the cornerstones of why we do science, and why Dr. Moran has taken her personal career journey. What was it like living at the South Pole for almost a year? […]
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Lifting the Fog on the Early Universe
05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Steven Finkelstein, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Provost’s Teaching Fellow, University of Texas at Austin VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Just after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with a fog of cool hydrogen gas. When the first stars and galaxies began to form, energetic light from these objects heated and ionized this gas, removing […]
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Exploring Galaxies and Beyond
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Lauren Corlies, Deputy Head of Education and Public Outreach, Vera C. Rubin Observatory VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Galaxies turn gas into giant collections of stars that light up the universe. This simple statement of what happens with galaxies like our own leads to deeper questions of how this happens: How does gas flow into galaxies? […]
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Cosmic Fireworks
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Mansi Kasliwal, Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Our dynamic universe is adorned by cosmic fireworks: energetic and ephemeral beacons of light that are a million (nova) to a billion (supernova) times brighter than our Sun. Fireworks synthesize most elements in our periodic table – while supernovae synthesize the lighter […]
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Decoding the Contents of Distant Galaxies
05:00 pm - 06:15 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Alice Shapley, Professor and Vice Chair for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Our Milky Way is one of countless galaxies in the universe. Understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies remains one of the great challenges of modern cosmology. Key outstanding questions include: What drives stars to […]
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Waimea Solar System Walk
Even COVID-19 can’t stop the annual Waimea Solar System Walk! CFHT, W. M. Keck Observatory, and University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy Hilo are working together to organize this year’s self guided, socially-distanced walk. The walk launches March 15, 2021 and continues through April 15. Instead of our traditional booths, each object in the solar […]
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Kepler, TESS, and Keck Observatory – Driving Our Understanding of Exoplanetary Systems
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: David Ciardi, Chief Scientist, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Launched in 2009, NASA’s Kepler revolutionized our understanding of other worlds by discovering thousands of exoplanet systems. 10 years after Kepler ended, NASA launched TESS to continue the revolution by finding planets around brighter, nearby stars. Ground-based telescopes have been critical to […]
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A Night in the Life of Keck Observatory
05:00 pm - 06:30 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: John O’Meara, Chief Scientist, W. M. Keck Observatory VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: You’ve seen the discoveries, but how are they made? In this presentation, we follow the process of Keck Observatory’s science, from proposal to publication. Along the way, we’ll learn how our Hawaii staff prepares the Keck I and Keck II telescopes, configures […]
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Dwarf Galaxies, Dark Matter, and the Milky Way
05:00 pm - 06:30 pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Marla Geha, Director, Yale Telescope Resources, Professor, Astronomy Department, Yale University VIRTUAL ASTRONOMY TALK: Dozens of small galaxies have been discovered orbiting our Milky Way galaxy over the past decade. These “ultra-faint” galaxies are less luminous than any other known galaxy, and are several million times fainter than the Milky Way itself. W. […]
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