Science May 20, 2007

The Thickness and Formation Age of Surface Layer on Comet 9P/Tempel 1 Next

Cometary nuclei are believed to contain important information on the condition of the solar nebula, but there is little observational data ...

Science April 25, 2007

More Fragments Discovered in Comet Schwassman-Wachmann 3 Nucleus

Precise analysis of a high-resolution image of Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 (SW3) taken in May 2006 by the Subaru Telescope, reveals tha...

Science March 22, 2007

Massive Flare Captured by "Hinode" (Solar-B)

Hinode (Solar-B) successfully captured a massive flare occurred in active region NOAA 10930 on 13 December 2006. It was one of the largest ...

Science March 22, 2007

Organic Molecule (Methyl Formate) in the First Torsionally Excited State Identified!!

Researchers from the University of Toyama and Nobeyama Radio Observatory, NAOJ have assigned 7 unidentified lines in Orion KL from previous...

Science March 20, 2007

Total Eclipse in the Orbit of "Hinode" (Solar-B)

"Hinode" experienced total eclipse in orbit on 2007 March 19, while it was just a partial eclipse on the ground. These data are used to mea...

Science March 13, 2007

Subaru Captures Beautiful Details in the Crab Nebula

A new image of the Crab Nebula supernova remnant taken using the Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) on the Subaru telescope highlights the be...

Science March 6, 2007

Unusual Streak of Ionized Gas Hints at Galaxy's Past

Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the University of Tokyo used Subaru's Suprime-Cam camera to disc...

Science February 14, 2007

Double sun sunset no longer science fiction

An international research team from the University of Jena (Germany), Nagoya University, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center (USA) recently ...

Science January 8, 2007

Dark matter map reveals cosmic web

An international team of astronomers led by Nick Scoville from the California Institute of Technology have created a three dimensional map ...

Science December 20, 2006

XRT/Hinode(Solar-B) Initial Results

In the press conference held on 20 December 2006, latest data and movie from X-Ray Telescope (XRT) had been released. XRT observes corona o...