Science September 21, 2009

Star Formation Activities at the Outskirts of Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946

This beautiful image of spiral galaxy NGC 6946 was obtained by the Subaru Observation Experience Program Team, a group of 10 young, qualifi...

Science July 3, 2009

A Fireworks Display in the Helix Nebula

The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293, is not only one of the most interesting and beautiful planetary nebulae; it is also one of the closest nebulae ...

Science June 16, 2009

The Most Sentitive Tera-Hertz Reciever

A research-and-development team of ALMA Band 10 lead by Yoshinori Uzawa succeeded to develope the most sensitive and the lowest-noise recie...

Science May 7, 2009

Discovery of a Cluster of Monster Galaxies

An international research team lead by Dr. Tamura (Nobeyama Radio Observatory, NAOJ) discovered a cluster of bright submillimeter galaxies ...

Science April 30, 2009

Detection of the light from the most distant known object

Okayama 188 cm telescope successed to catch the light from the most distant known object in the Universe (13 billion light years away from ...

Science April 23, 2009

Mysterious Space Blob Discovered at Cosmic Dawn

Pasadena, CA--Using information from a suite of telescopes, astronomers have discovered a mysterious, giant object that existed at a time w...

Science April 15, 2009

Creating Diamonds in Space

Do you know that there are countless diamonds in space? Loads of tiny diamonds, each measuring less than one micrometer (much less than the...

Science April 8, 2009

A new solar dynamo mechanism discovered by the Hinode satellite

The Sun has strong magnetic fields as represented by sunspots. The mechanism to create such strong magnetic fields is still a mystery, and ...

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...

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 ...