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The ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo opened in 2006. Its three titanium-clad cones recall the island's volcanoes Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa and Hualālai. Exhibits link Hawaiian voyaging and knowledge of the sky with the work of the observatories on Maunakea, and a planetarium shows the stars over Hawaiʻi; native plants fill the gardens.
The Pacific Tsunami Museum in downtown Hilo opened in 1998 in a former bank building of 1930 that withstood the tsunamis of 1946 and 1960, both of which devastated Hilo's waterfront. It records those disasters through survivors' accounts, photographs and objects, and explains how tsunamis form and how warning systems work.
Rainbow Falls, Waiānuenue in Hawaiian, is a waterfall about 24 m high on the Wailuku River, 2 km west of downtown Hilo in Wailuku River State Park. The river pours over a lava ledge into a wide pool, and on sunny mornings its spray forms rainbows. Hawaiian tradition places the home of the goddess Hina in the cave behind the falls; the Boiling Pots lie upstream.
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