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Topics October 27, 2011
HSC Wide-Field Corrector Arrives at Subaru Telescope
August 6th, 2011 at 12:20, Subaru Telescope. Finally, HSC has safely arrived at Subaru Telescope. The wide-field corrector of Hyper Suprime...
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Science October 20, 2011
Researchers Explain the Formation of Scheila's Unusual Triple Dust Tails
A research team of planetary scientists and astronomers, primarily from Seoul National University, the National Astronomical Observatory of...
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Science October 19, 2011
"Failed Stars" Galore with One Youngster Only Six Times Heftier than Jupiter
An international team of astronomers has discovered over two-dozen new free-floating brown dwarfs that reside in two young star clusters. O...
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Science October 19, 2011
The First Detection of Abundant Carbon in the Early Universe
The optical image of TN J0924-2201, a very distant radio galaxy at z = 5.19, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. (c) NASA/STScI/NAOJ....
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Science October 19, 2011
ALMA Opens Its Eyes
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy obser...
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Science September 8, 2011
Approaching the Black Hole: Astronomers Pinpointed the Location of the Central Black Hole in M87
Credit: NAOJ/AND You Inc. A research team of astronomers led by Hada (SOKENDAI/NAOJ) reported the location of the supermassive black hole i...
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Science August 26, 2011
Three classical Cepheids and their impact on the star formation history in the Galactic Nuclear Bulge
Figure1. The finding charts of the classical Cepheids discovered in the Nuclear Bulge. The region within a few hundred light years of the ...
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Science July 7, 2011
Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Sharpens Subaru Telescope's Eyesight and Opens a New Vision of the Distant Universe
Figure1. Laser beam shot from the Subaru Telescope to generate an artificial guide star at a height of 90 km in the upper atmosphere. (Phot...
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Topics July 7, 2011
Opening ceremony of the new NAOJ Chile Office
On June 30, 2011, the opening ceremony of the new NAOJ Chile Office was held in Santiago, Chile. Link ALMA -->...
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Science May 18, 2011
First Japanese 7-m antenna was handed over to JAO
The first 7-m antenna passed the acceptance review and was handed over to the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) on May 2, 2011. The antenna is...