Science October 31, 2006

Hinode (Solar-B) First Light

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) briefs on Hinode (Solar-B) early operation status and releases Hinode's "First Light" photos. The ...

Science October 24, 2006

Subaru Earthquake: Message from Dr. Masahiko Hayashi, Director of Subaru Telescope

Thank you for all your expressions of concern and encouragement. Subaru Telescope will carry out detailed analyses of the impact of the ear...

Science October 24, 2006

Star Ends Infancy Abruptly

Zooming in on a nearby young star called HD 141569A, astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Max Planck Ins...

Science September 23, 2006

Hinode (Solar-B) has Flown!

Solar-B and its vehicle M-V-7 rocket have been successfully launched from Uchinoura Space Center (USC/JAXA) at 06:36 am on 23 September 200...

Science September 14, 2006

Cosmic Archeology Uncovers the Universe's Dark Ages

Astronomers using the Subaru telescope in Hawai'i have looked 60 million years further back in time than any other astronomers, to find the...

Science August 30, 2006

Japanese Researcher Finds Massive Black Hole 12.7 Billion Light-years Away

Astronomer Tomotsugu Goto from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) has used the Subaru telescope to identify a distant quasar powe...

Science July 27, 2006

Giant Gas Clouds Illuminate Universe's Largest Structure

A team of astronomers using the Subaru and Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea has discovered giant, three-dimensional filaments of galaxies exten...

Science July 13, 2006

Subaru Discovers 9 New Satellites of Saturn

David Jewitt from the University of Hawaii and his colleagues discovered 9 new satellites of Saturn using the Subaru telescope. This achiev...

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 ...