Our Solar System

Observations from Maunakea of planets within our own solar system are yielding new discoveries and insights about our neighborhood of the galaxy.

Discoveries

UH Eclipse Research Finds Turbulent Times in the Sun’s Corona

Discovery of Brown Dwarf Companion Provides New Insight into Stellar and Planetary Formation and Evolution

Astronomers Detect Cloud Convection Near Titan’s Lakes

Astronomers Discover Rare Distant Object in Sync with Neptune

Ammonite: a Newly Discovered Distant Object that Hints at our Solar System's Past

Gemini Gets Lucky and Takes a Deep Dive Into Jupiter’s Clouds

Clouds On Neptune Perform a Surprise Disappearing Act

Programs & More

JCMT-Venus – monitoring phosphine and other molecules in Venus’s atmosphere

Solar System Twilight Observing Program at Keck Observatory

NASA Infrared Telescope Science Highlights, including many from our solar system