Description: On the island of Maui is Haleakal?, a mountain topping out over 10,000'. It's tall enough that, should you drive up from sea level like almost all visitors from off-island, you get winded just walking from your car to the look out at the top. Stay long enough and, depending on your physiology, you might feel some of the effects of mountain sickness.

There are 2 positions in this vacancy announcement. 1 position is located in Haleakalā National Park and 1 is located in Pu'uhōnua o Honaunau National Historical Park. Both positions ope...

Scientists used the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope – on the summit of the Haleakal? volcano on the island of Maui, Hawaii – to obtain this image of the sun. It’s the highest-resolution images of the sun’s surface (photosphere) yet. In the process they also discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on the sun’s surface. Video via NSO. The world’s most powerful solar telescope – the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii – combined with computer simulations to find the signature of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. It happens when 2 fluid or gas layers slide past each, creating friction (or “shear”) along their boundary. The curling, vortex patterns resembling breaking ocean waves or wind-driven clouds on Earth. The discovery helps reveal the fundamental physics of the sun and other stars, these scientists say. It also can help people prepare for solar bursts that can affect satellites, power grids and other earthly technology. The National Solar Observatory published this original story on August 5, 2026. Edits by EarthSky. Highest-resolution images of the sun’s surface On August 5, 2026, the U.S. National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory (NSF NSO) announced what they said is a groundbreaking discovery in the field of solar physics. They said it...

(Image credit: NSF/NSO/AURA) The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the summit of Haleakalā on the island of Maui, Hawaii, captured the sharpest-ever images of the sun's surface. The images show ultra-fine bright and dark stripes (called striations) in the thin, gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere known as the photosphere, according to a statement from the National Solar Observatory (NSO), which operates the solar telescope. "In this work, we investigate the fine-scale structure of the solar surface for the first time with an unprecedented spatial resolution of just about 20 kilometers , or the length of Manhattan Island," David Kuridze, lead author of the study and a NSO scientists, said in the statement.

You don't have to get up stupid early to catch a glimpse of Mauna Kea from Haleakal? on Maui, about 80 miles away. My suggestion is to go up when the gate opens (usually 7am for those without a early morning lottery permit thingy) and you will have more time to yourself up there. I have done both the sunrise thing and the after and prefer the after. Temps start to warm up and the crowds are clearing out.

Description: Just down from Haleakal?'s 10,023' summit is a batch of telescopes. Among them is the impressive Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. Completed in 2017, the telescope sits above about 1/3 of the Earth's atmosphere, giving it a great view of the sun's surface. Learn more here: If you're wondering what an image from the observatory looks like, I found…