This instrument can observe approximately 2,400 celestial objects at the same time across a wide field of view. It breaks down the light of each object into a rainbow extending well past the range of ...

How did the construction of the Subaru Telescope transform Japanese astronomy? A new study provides a quantitative answer by analyzing scientific publications and their ...

Low Res. (54 KB) / Mid. Res. (941 KB) / High Res. (8.2 MB) NGC 941 is located approximately 55 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. This faint galaxy is classified as an intermediate ...

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The Subaru Telescope has started a new outreach camera project in collaboration with the Asahi-Shimbun, one of the most popular newspapers in Japan. This camera is used for live streaming of the night ...

The discovery of two remarkable substellar companions orbiting distant stars has been announced by an international team of astronomers using the Subaru Telescope’s sharp adaptive-optics imaging ...

The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the outer edge of the Solar System that includes Sedna. The new object, ...

An international research team led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University has discovered an extraordinary quasar in the early Universe that hosts one of the fastest-growing ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early Universe, less than one billion years after the Big Bang — a type of object that had previously escaped detection. An ...

An international team of astronomers has solved one of the longstanding cosmic mysteries by uncovering direct evidence of a massive, long-lost object that collided with the Perseus cluster. Using high ...

The MBQ1 (Medium Band Quadrant) filter is newly opened for open-use observations in Semester S26A. If you wish to use this filter during the period of S26A through S27A, you must obtain an approval in ...