Maunakea

It's been a year since the Maunakea Stewardship and Oversight Authority was created by Act 255, which transfers responsibility for the Big Island volcano from the University of Hawaiʻi to the panel in five years. But there's a separate university advisory panel of Maunakea raising concerns about co-managing the mountain while the new governing board starts.

A Molokaʻi High School alumna has co-authored a recently published astronomy paper. She captured the first look at magnetic fields within the iconic and beautiful Horsehead Nebula, with data she gathered in 2018. Catherine Cluett Pactol from The Molokai Dispatch explains.

A new discovery out of UCLA's Galactic Center Orbits Initiative found that stars that were once believed to come in pairs actually merge together due to a supermassive black hole. Devin Chu, a Hilo-born astronomer led a 10-year survey of young stars near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy using the Keck Observatory on Maunakea.

The recent observation of a sun-like star gulping an orbiting planet involved multiple telescopes including the Keck Observatory on Maunakea. The Conversation spoke to John O’Meara, chief scientist of the observatory, to learn about this powerful star and its appetite for other planets.

For the first time in Hawaiʻi's 50-year history with astronomy, observatories will be removed from Maunakea. First up is the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. Most of the instruments have already been removed, but the telescope's 34-foot diameter primary mirror remains. The Conversation's Russell Subiono has more.

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The application to decommission another telescope off of Maunakea has been approved. The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo’s Hōkū Kea Observatory will be the second telescope to be deconstructed from the mountain’s summit.

Scientists at Hawaiʻi Island’s Keck Observatory recently observed two significant events in deep space. The Conversation talked to Keck Observatory’s Chief Scientist John O’Meara about the galactic discoveries.

Gov. Josh Green has nominated the eight members of the new Maunakea Stewardship and Oversight Authority. On July 1, a transition period begins to transfer control of Maunakea away from the University of Hawaiʻi. HPR's Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports on what the authority has done so far.

The introduction of hooved animals on Maunakea in the late 1700s nearly brought the native plant to extinction. Now, more than 100 seedlings of silverswords are flourishing in the Center for Maunakea Stewardship’s greenhouse.