Science March 6, 2013

Soccer Balls in Interstellar Space

An international team of astronomers led by Masaaki Otsuka (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics or ASIAA) has detected t...

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Science February 20, 2013

3-D Observations of the Outflow from an Active Galactic Nucleus

A Japanese team of astronomers, led by Toru Misawa (Shinshu University), has used the Subaru Telescope to observe a distant gravitationally-...

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Science February 8, 2013

Direct Infrared Image of an Arm in Disk Demonstrates Transition to Planet Formation

An international team of astronomers led by Satoshi Mayama (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan) and Ruobing Dong (Princeton...

Science January 25, 2013

The Origin and Maintenance of a Retrograde Exoplanet

Astronomers have used the Subaru Telescope to show that the HAT-P-7 planetary system, which is about 1040 light years from Earth in the cons...

Science January 25, 2013

Shedding Light on the Power of M 82’s Superwinds

An international team of astronomers has discovered that outflows of gas from starburst galaxy M 82 collide with a “cap” of gas clouds 40,00...

Science January 7, 2013

ALMA Sheds Light on Planet-Forming Gas Streams - Tantalising signs of flows feeding gas-guzzling giant planets

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have seen a key stage in the birth of giant planets for ...

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Science December 26, 2012

Spiral Structure of Disk May Reveal Planets

An international team of astronomers has used HiCIAO mounted on the Subaru Telescope to capture detailed images of the disk around the young...

Science November 28, 2012

Dust Grains Highlight the Path to Planet Formation

An international team of researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the Japanese universities of Kobe, Hyogo...

Science November 20, 2012

Direct Imaging of a Super-Jupiter Around a Massive Star

An international team of astronomers, led by Joseph Carson (College of Charleston and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), has discovered a ...

Science November 12, 2012

Discovery of a Giant Gap in the Disk of a Sun-like Star

A large international team of astronomers led by Jun Hashimoto (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) and Ruobing Dong (Princeton Univ...