Science June 28, 2006

Diversity the Norm in Protoplanetary Disks: Astronomers Find Donuts, Spirals and Now Banana Splits

A close look at the protoplanetary disk around a young star by two teams of astronomers using the Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea has led to...

Science May 26, 2006

Universe Re-Ionized 900 Million Years After Birth

Subaru observations of the most distant known gamma-ray burst show that most hydrogen between the galaxies had become ionized 900 million ...

Science May 12, 2006

Subaru Captures Crumbling Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3

The Subaru telescope recently focused its attention on Comet Schwassman-Wachmann 3 and its crumbling nucleus. Using Suprime-Cam, astronomer...

Science April 21, 2006

Synergy of Technologies Reveal Origin of Dust Around Nearby Star

A combination of observing strategy and advanced technology has produced the most detailed picture yet of a dust disk surrounding a nearby...

Science April 12, 2006

Computer Simulations Link Galaxies Past and Present

Ultra-high resolution super computer simulations have succeeded in revealing the future of the earliest and most distant galaxies known. Th...

Science February 23, 2006

MOIRCS - Subaru's new "infrared eye" now open

Subaru Telescope opened its doors to astronomers from all over the world in December, 2000. In the five years since then, the telescope's c...

Science January 6, 2006

Cosmological Magnetic Field: a fossil of density perturbations in the early universe

The origin of large scale magnetic fields found in galaxies and clusters of galaxies is still a mystery. Researchers from National Astronom...

Science December 22, 2005

Young Galaxies Grow Up Together in a Nest of Dark Matter

Astronomers have found clear indications that clumps of dark matter are the nursing grounds for new born galaxies about twelve billion ligh...

Science October 13, 2005

A Galactic Space Halo -- NGC2403

Subaru Telescope, using Suprime-Cam, took the clearest most complete image to date of the spiral galaxy NGC 2403. At a distance of 10 milli...

Topics September 21, 2005

Signing Ceremony for the East Asian Core Observatories Association

On September 21, during a ceremony at NAOJ mitaka campus in Japan, a memorandum of understanding for the East Asian Core Observatories Asso...