Events October 8, 2015

Announcement of Holding Mitaka Open House Day 2015

Mitaka Open House Day 2015 will be held on Oct. 23 and 24, 2015. There are many contents such as open facilities, give lectures, and so on.

Science September 30, 2015

Mechanism of explosions and plasma jets associated with sunspot formation revealed

Research team reveals the astrophysical mechanism for the formation of sunspots by Hinode and NASA Ames Research Center's supercomputer.

Science September 25, 2015

“Fossils” of galaxies reveal the formation and evolution of massive galaxies

An international team observed massive dead galaxies in the universe 4 billion years after the Big Bang with the Subaru Telescope's MOIRCS.

Science September 10, 2015

Oxygen is not Definitive Evidence of Life on Habitable Extrasolar Planets

Astrobiology Center and IMS have presented a novel hypothesis that it could be possible for planets to have large quantities of abiotic oxygen.

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Topics September 4, 2015

CLASP was successfully launched

CLASP was successfully launched to space from White Sands in the U.S.A. and all data were stored in the instrument during the flight.

Science August 27, 2015

Discovering Dust-Obscured Active Galaxies as They Grow

The research group discovered 48 DOGs using data obtained from the HSC on the Subaru Telescope and has measured how common they are.

Science August 24, 2015

Hinode, IRIS, and ATERUI Cooperate on 70 year old Solar Mystery: Magnetically driven resonance helps heat the Sun’s atmosphere!

The combined data of Hinode, IRIS, and ATERUI, they were able to detect and identify the observational signatures of resonant absorption.

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Science August 5, 2015

The Ghostly Remnants of Galaxy Interactions Uncovered in a Nearby Galaxy Group

Subaru Telescope’s HSC observed a large area toward M81 with satellite galaxies and resolved the special distribution of young stars.

Science July 2, 2015

Dark Matter Map Begins to Reveal the Universe’s Early History

Researchers have begun a wide-area survey of the distribution of dark matter in the universe using HSC, installed on the Subaru Telescope.

Science June 26, 2015

Unexpectedly Little Black-hole Monsters Rapidly Suck up Surrounding Matter

Researchers found evidence that enigmatic objects in ULXs exhibit strong outflows suggest black holes smaller than expected by Subaru Telescope