Institute for Astronomy (Hawaii)

The Institute for Astronomy is a research unit of the University of Hawaii system, established in 1967 and headquartered near the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus in Honolulu, with additional facilities on Maui and the island of Hawaii. The institute manages the major observatory complexes atop Haleakala and Mauna Kea, and its astronomers study Solar System objects, stars, galaxies and cosmology. It employs more than 300 people, including about 55 faculty members and more than 150 astronomers and support staff. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/