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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images taken with the world’s largest digital camera on June 23, 2025 (local ...
Detail : GJ 504 b is an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star GJ 504. It is estimated to be three to six times more massive than Jupiter, making it the least massive planet ever directly imaged. This ...
ベラ・C・ルービン天文台は、世界最大のデジタルカメラによる観測画像を 2025年6月23日(現地時)に初公開しました。今後、このカメラを用いた大規模撮像探査プロジェクト「LSST(Legacy Survey of Space and Time)」が本格的に始まります。LSST には、国立天文台の研究者を含む日本の研究者も多く ...
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 ...
Subaru AO188 is an 188 element curvature sensor adaptive optics system that are operated in both natural guide star (NGS) and laser guide star (LGS) modes. AO188 module is mounted on the Nasmyth ...
Triple Ring Galaxy(2MASX J22361103+0124304) November 6, 2024 Last updated: November 28, 2024 ...
The Subaru Telescope's wide and deep imaging observations are contributing information to the New Horizons spacecraft as it moves through the outer Solar System. By applying a unique analysis method ...
Detail : In the vast cosmic images captured through the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP), a large-scale survey spanning 330 nights of Subaru Telescope operations starting in 2014 ...
The stunning image of a "firecracker" at the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy recently released by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), would not have happened without previous observations of the ...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a tightly packed cluster of supermassive black holes dating back 10.8 billion years―the most extreme concentration of such objects ever found in the ...
Before dawn on March 3, 2022 (Hawai`i Standard Time), Subaru Telescope achieved the first launch of a new laser guide star system, upgraded and used for the Subaru Telescope’s adaptive optics system.