#Exploding Stars

UH Leads International Star Study Using NASA’s New $10 Billion Space Telescope

Chris Ashall, a postdoctoral researcher with the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy, will lead an international team of 30 plus scientists to focus on dying stars during the flagship mission of NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope.

Maikalani Lecture: Dark energy and the Runaway Universe

Dark energy and a runaway universe will be the topic of a lecture on Thursday, June 24, 2010 lecture at the Maikalani UH Institute for Astronomy on Maui.  Dr. Alex Filippenko will navigate this topic, exploring observations of distant exploding stars, and discussing the origin of dark energy—an area some researchers believe could provide clues […]