The Subaru Telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, is an 8.2-meter optical-infrared telescope located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii’s Big Island. Named after the Pleiades star cluster, which is known as “Subaru” in Japanese, the telescope began operations in 1999 and is one of the largest and most technologically advanced telescopes in the world. It features a wide field of view and is equipped with sophisticated instruments that allow astronomers to observe deep into the universe with exceptional clarity and detail. The Subaru Telescope has contributed significantly to a variety of fields in astronomy, from studying distant galaxies and black holes to searching for exoplanets and observing solar system objects.
GALAXY CRUISE, with the help of 10,000 citizen astronomers, discovers that galaxies’ star formation rate surges during collisions, as highlighted in their first scientific paper….
GALAXY CRUISE, in collaboration with citizen astronomers, uses the Subaru Telescope’s images to uncover galaxy secrets. The project found that merging galaxies show heightened activity….
Black holes with exceptionally large masses—over a million times the mass of the Sun, known as supermassive black holes (SMBHs)—are commonly found in the universe…
Astrophysicists found the “clumpiness” of Universe’s dark matter to be 0.76, a figure conflicting with the Cosmic Microwave Background value of 0.83, indicating possible errors…
A new super-Earth planet was found 37 light years from Earth. Only 37 light-years from Earth, a super-Earth planet has been discovered close to a…
Using star-shattering explosions to measure the universe. An multinational team of 23 scientists, led by Maria Dainotti, Assistant Professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of…
One of the youngest planets ever found around a distant infant star has been discovered by an international team of scientists led by University of…
A scientifically mysterious, isolated cloud bigger than the Milky Way has been found by a research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)…
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a titanic galactic wind driven by a supermassive black hole 13.1 billion years ago. This is…
A team, including an astronomer from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), have confirmed a planetoid that is almost four times farther from…
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many interdisciplinary projects which benefit from the synergy of…
On December 10, 2020 (Hawaiʻi Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Hayabusa2’s extended mission. The positional data…
Australian Scientists’ Invention Will Decipher the ‘Twinkle’ of Stars Australian scientists have developed a new type of sensor to measure and correct the distortion of…
With almost two decades of mid-infrared (IR) imaging from the largest observatories around the world including the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers was able…
Maunakea Observatories Discover Three Pairs of Merging Supermassive Black Holes A cosmic dance between two merging galaxies, each one containing a supermassive black hole that’s…
Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high…
Rare, Extremely Metal-Poor Nearby Galaxy Discovered With Machine Learning Astronomers using two Maunakea Observatories – Subaru Telescope and W. M. Keck Observatory – combined with…
Breaking the lowest oxygen abundance record. New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have…