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Science February 18, 2009
Water ice in the young planetary system - future ocean of the planets?
What is the origin of the ocean on the Earth where the life began? Researchers think that the Earth was formed by the aggregation of a huge...
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Science February 13, 2009
Kaguya Mission Reveals a New Global View of the Moon
Scientific teams of the Japanese KAGUYA (SELENE) mission present a new global view of the Moon. One of the team reports lunar global shape ...
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Science February 10, 2009
Strong UV Radiation Detected in the Most Distant Galaxies
A team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Osaka Sangyo University, Tohoku University, and Laboratoire d'As...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...