Science January 30, 2009

Subaru Head Count of Low-mass Stars in W3 Main

The number of stars in the Universe is staggering. Because there are billions of stars in each galaxy and there are billions of galaxies, t...

Topics January 23, 2009

Subaru Telescope 10th Anniversary: Subaru has produced a beautiful high-resolution view of M33

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai'i has produced a beautiful high-resolution view of the nearby galaxy M33 that reveals fine structure in its s...

Topics January 16, 2009

Astronomers from Princeton and Japan unite to explore the universe, near and far

Scientists from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and Princeton University have agreed to collaborate over the next 10 ...

Science January 16, 2009

Dust Formation in a Metal-Poor Star

Astronomers detected dust around a carbon star in a nearby galaxy with a low abundance of heavy elements, only 5 percent of the solar abund...

Science December 4, 2008

Super Explosion in 16th Century Caught by Subaru in 21st Century

When a person looks up into the nighttime sky, they see stars, planets, and galaxies across a sea of darkness. The movements of planets and...

Science November 20, 2008

Suprime-Cam upgraded with ultra-sensitive CCDs

Suprime-Cam is the 80 million pixel digital camera positioned at Subaru's prime focus collecting high quality pictures over a 30 arc minute...

Science October 31, 2008

Subaru Tackles Galaxy Evolution in Distant Universe

As scientists study the interconnectedness of environmental systems on Earth, astronomers are looking at environmental forces in the Univer...

Science August 1, 2008

Formation of the First Stars in the Universe

A computer simulation offers a detailed picture of how the first stars in the universe came into existence soon after the Big Bang. Researc...

Science May 30, 2008

Decoding Light to Uncover the Mystery of Cassiopeia A's Birth

Cassiopeia A (Cas A), a supernova remnant located 11,000 light years away, is the second youngest known remnant in the Milky Way Galaxy. Al...

Science April 9, 2008

KAGUYA creates topographical map of the Moon

Using the Laser Altimeter (LALT) aboard the Lunar Explorer KAGUYA, research team acquired data covering the entire Moon's surface and produ...