Discoveries using the telescopes on Mauna Kea

[Guest]

Pog, thanks for sharing. That was very inspiring.

[PaulW]

To save anyone the bother, it's a video of some guy painting a space scene. Not sure how it is relevant to this thread.

[PaulW]

This isn't really relevant to Mauna Kea either, but a great example of science at work.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why...-the-ocean

[dmbwest]

Your welcome Gypsy, too bad the anti-art crowd can not appreciate it. LOL.

That one is pretty EZ. Try it at home with the kids. Follow the sequence and they all come out great.
aloha,
pog

[TomK]

Getting back to Hawaii related news and although not Mauna Kea, in this case, there has been some news from the Pan-STARRS project on Maui:

"Pan-STARRS releases catalogue of 3 billion astronomical sources"

https://goo.gl/TObdzZ

"High-redshift quasar discovered by Pan-STARRS"

https://goo.gl/aWbMeo

[TomK]

And in the meantime:

"High School Students Awarded Time at Mauna Kea Observatories"

http://bigislandnow.com/2016/12/21/high-...rvatories/

"These students have taken a huge leap, taking on the biggest questions about the universe and designing their own educational pathways,” said Bryan Silver, Kalani High School teacher. “Nowhere else in the world can students experience this type of hands-on learning. These observatories, and this program, is a resource Hawaii’s students are fortunate to have access to."

[TomK]

Astronomers on Mauna Kea are searching for Planet 9 tonight (Thursday 29th Dec):

https://goo.gl/LZ5d7Y (NPR article).

Unfortunately, the summit is under thick high clouds tonight...

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Multiple repeated fast radio bursts have been detected, and their source confirmed by Gemini North on Mauna Kea. The bursts are extremely powerful, allowing their reception from 3 billion miles away here on earth. What are they? Natural events or an advanced civilization sending out a message to other life forms in the universe? Stay tuned...

To more precisely zero in on its location, Chatterjee and his co-authors turned to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array (VLA). In 83 hours of observing time last year, they watched FBR 121102 fire off nine additional times, all at a consistent sky position. Follow-up observations with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii revealed a very faint dwarf galaxy at precisely the location of the source.
http://gizmodo.com/astronomers-pinpointe...1790760275

"One may pretend knowledge of philosophy more successfully than that of arithmetic." -Last Aphorisms (or how about, one may pretend knowledge with an opinion more successfully than with facts)

[TomK]

An immature star has a bit of a tantrum.

http://phys.org/news/2017-01-astronomers...young.html

"Astronomers from the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Armenia have discovered a strong outburst of the embedded young stellar object (YSO) designated UKIDSS-J185318.36+012454.5. This newly detected event could provide important insights for the understanding of eruptive variability of young stars. The researchers presented their discovery in a paper published Dec. 30 on the arXiv preprint server."

This comes from the UKIDDS survey carried out by UKIRT on Mauna Kea for a number of years. It was a survey of the northern hemisphere sky in the infrared for UK astronomers and partners, but as the data came in they were released to the worldwide community a year after being taken so everyone had a chance to make discoveries.

http://www.ukidss.org/

[PaulW]

60 Minutes last night had a piece on Planet 9 and Mauna Kea featured. They sounded very certain of themselves!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-c...anet-nine/

ETA link

Curious what you think of the story, TomK.