#NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hawaiʻi’s Keck Observatory Aids in Discovery of Rare “Quadruply Imaged Quasars”
Machine-learning techniques led a team of astronomers to discover a dozen quasars that have been warped by a naturally occurring cosmic “lens” and split into four similar images. Quasars are extremely luminous cores of distant galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes.
UH Scientists Awaited as NASA’s Perseverance Rover Landed On Mars to Search for Signs of Ancient Life
After a six-month journey, Perseverance, the most sophisticated rover NASA has ever sent to Mars landed on the red planet on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 at 10:55 a.m. HST. Along with people around the world, scientists and students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa eagerly awaited the milestone.
