The Subaru Telescope and the Milky Way

Credit: Dr. Vera Maria Passegger/NAOJ

https://subarutelescope.org/en/gallery/facility/2026/02/11/3666.html

#Maunakea #Hawaii #MilkyWay #photography #sunsetphotography #SubaruTelescope #astronomy #astrodon #BigIsland

NOIRLab image of the week

Kīlauea Eruption Captured by Gemini North CloudCam

Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard

https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2605a/

#NOIRLab #Gemini #Kilauea #volcano #volcanology #astronomy #astrodon #science #Hawaii #BigIsland #Maunakea

ʻŌnohiʻula: Subaru Telescope’s new Prime Focus Spectrograph receives Hawaiian name. It carries multiple layers of meanings - how the instrument perceives the cosmos much like our eyes perceive light, as well as the color red and its association with the sacred realm of origin in Hawaiian culture.

https://www.maunakeaobservatories.org/stories/nohiula-subaru-telescopes-pfs-instrument-receives-hawaiian-name

#Maunakea #Hawaii #astronomy #astrodon #science

Un nuevo estudio revela que el penacho del manto bajo Hawái podría estar bifurcándose. Descubre por qué Mauna Loa y Mauna Kea tienen lavas químicamente distintas y qué significa para el futuro del archipiélago.
#Hawái #Volcanes #MaunaLoa #MaunaKea #Tutiempo

https://www.tutiempo.net/noticias/misterio-geologico-hawai-division-manto-podria-separar-islas.html

Sunset over Maunakea and the Subaru Telescope Preparing for Observation

Credit: Dr. Vera Maria Passegger/NAOJ

https://subarutelescope.org/en/gallery/facility/2026/01/14/3643.html

#Maunakea #Hawaii #sunset #photography #sunsetphotography #SubaruTelescope #astronomy #astrodon #BigIsland

Snow at the telescopes site on the summit of Mauna Kea! I didn’t know that was a thing.

The live cameras don’t shown much.

East view: https://www.youtube.com/live/6g4Fh8K-MhY

West view: https://www.youtube.com/live/qJ8lYplu1y0

#Astonomy #MaunaKea
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115843812909346453

Prime Focus Spectrograph Receives Hawaiian name ʻŌnohiʻula

ʻŌnohiʻula embodies the idea of perceiving the realm of our origins, honoring the people and land of Hawaiʻi and expressing a commitment to exploring the Universe together with the local community.

https://www.ipmu.jp/en/20251223-PFS

#SubaruTelescope #Maunakea #Hawaii #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #science #news

Beware of Invisible Cows

Up at the visitor’s center for the Mauna Kea observatories, there’s a sign that says, “Beware of Invisible Cows.” It was dark when we were there, and I tried to get this picture without using the flash since there were people with portable telescopes ten feet away, so it’s really blurry:

Fortunately someone in charge recognized the humor value, and the visitor’s center sells bumper stickers:

Of course, it turns out other people, visiting during the day, have snapped better pictures of the sign.

Update 2025: They still sell stickers, magnets and T-shirts featuring the warning! The T-shirts are printed with the words, but not the cows, in glow-in-the-dark ink, so at night, the cows are in fact invisible. I’m tempted…

Note: Our visit to Mauna Kea was on Saturday, April 9, 2005.

#bumperSticker #hawaii #hawaii2005 #maunaKea #roadSigns #signs #tops