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 ...

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...

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...

Science April 1, 2011

ALMA Invites Proposals for Early Science Observations

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the most ambitious radio astronomy observatory ever built, is announcing the fir...

Science March 25, 2011

AKARI reveals Red Giants' dusty veils

Fig.1: A false-color far-IR image of U Hydrae at 90 micron taken with AKARI's Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS), showing a shell of cold Fig.2: A...

Science March 8, 2011

New Images of Starburst Galaxy M 82 Reveal Multiple Sources of Its Superwind

Subaru high resolution image of the interior of M 82. The Subaru Telescope, fitted with its instrument COMICS (Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera a...

Science February 25, 2011

Triggered Star Formation in the Orion Molecular Cloud

(Left) Infrared image of Orion molecular cloud. (c)2MASS (Right) Radio image of Orion molecular cloud. (c) NAOJ An international team le...

Science February 18, 2011

Direct Images of Disks Unravel Mystery of Planet Formation

The fruits of the SEEDS (Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru) Project, led by Motohide Tamura at NAOJ (National Astr...