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Science March 19, 2012
Discovery of Japan’s Oldest Photographic Plates of a Starfield
A team lead by Jun-ichi Watanabe and the Public Outreach and Archive Office has been inspecting as many as 20,000 old photographic plates, w...
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Science February 9, 2012
Subaru Telescope Captures Images of the “Stealth Merger” of Dwarf Galaxies
Suprime-Cam captured this image of the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 (lower left) and its companion (upper right), a dwarf galaxy that has b...
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Science January 20, 2012
Precise Measurement of Dark Matter Distribution with Strong and Weak Gravitational Lensing
An international research group led by Masamune Oguri, an assistant professor at IPMU, has made a precise measurement of dark matter distri...
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Science January 4, 2012
Subaru's Sharp Eye Confirms Signs of Unseen Planets in the Dust Ring of HR 4796A
Near-infrared (1.6 micron) image of the debris ring around the star HR 4796 A. An astronomical unit (AU) is a unit of length that correspon...
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Science December 28, 2011
Complete Map of Molecular Gas and Interstellar Dust of M33
A research group lead by Shinya KOMUGI (NAOJ) and Tomoka TOSAKI (Joetsu University of Education), has succeeded in completing a wide-field,...
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Science December 26, 2011
Discovery of a Vigorous Star-Forming Galaxy at the Cosmic Dawn
An international team of astronomers led by Masami Ouchi at the University of Tokyo has discovered a vigorous, star-forming galaxy that exi...
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Science November 22, 2011
Galaxy Collisions - Star Cluster Formation and Black Hole Growth -
The contours on the right figure show the SMA data obtained and analyzed by the group. Can a galaxy collision trigger massive bursts of sta...
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Science November 18, 2011
Ultra Bright Submillimeter Galaxy “Orochi”
Multi-wavelength images of Orochi. Orochi is located at the center of each image. The bright sources on radio, millimeter and submillimete...
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Science October 27, 2011
Subaru's 3-D View of Stephan's Quintet
Composite tricolor images of Stephan's Quintet using Hα filters with a recession velocity of 0 (left image) and a recession velocity of 4,2...
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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...