Aloha to our scientific colleagues around the world, On behalf of the more than 500 people employed by the Maunakea Observatories, we offer a perspective about […]
By Doug Simons, Executive Director of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Since the state announced construction restart plans of the Thirty Meter Telescope, uncertainty about what lies ahead […]
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope & Submillimeter Array Help Unlock One of the Universe’s Greatest Mysteries Two of the world’s most powerful telescopes, located atop Maunakea, played […]
The hunt for exoplanets (planets outside of our Solar System) is a hot topic in Astronomy and the Maunakea Observatories certainly impacted history with their early […]
Astronomers have discovered a new object at the edge of our Solar System. The new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto has an orbit that supports […]
Maunakea, Hawaii – Galaxies and dark matter go hand in hand; you typically don’t find one without the other. So when researchers uncovered a galaxy, known as […]
Maunakea, Hawaii – When it comes to extrasolar planets, appearances can be deceiving. Astronomers have imaged a new planet, and it appears nearly identical to one of […]
Keck and CFHT proved what separates real stars from wannabes through their observations of low mass stars and brown dwarfs. The lead astronomer (Trent Dupuy) is […]