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

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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 team behind CIAX—the Cassegrain Instrument Auto eXchanger for the Subaru Telescope—has received the FY 2025 Director General's Prize of the National ...

宇宙をより詳しく調べるためには、より大きく、より高性能な望遠鏡が必要になります。世界最高水準の望遠鏡で天文学の最前線に立ちたい―そんな日本の天文学者の長年の夢は、1999年 ...

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 National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and The Asahi Shimbun Company installed an ultra-high sensitivity camera on the Summit Facility of the Subaru Telescope to livestream the night ...

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 ...

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 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, ...