Science May 12, 2006

Subaru Captures Crumbling Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3

The Subaru telescope recently focused its attention on Comet Schwassman-Wachmann 3 and its crumbling nucleus. Using Suprime-Cam, astronomer...

Science April 21, 2006

Synergy of Technologies Reveal Origin of Dust Around Nearby Star

A combination of observing strategy and advanced technology has produced the most detailed picture yet of a dust disk surrounding a nearby...

Science April 12, 2006

Computer Simulations Link Galaxies Past and Present

Ultra-high resolution super computer simulations have succeeded in revealing the future of the earliest and most distant galaxies known. Th...

Science February 23, 2006

MOIRCS - Subaru's new "infrared eye" now open

Subaru Telescope opened its doors to astronomers from all over the world in December, 2000. In the five years since then, the telescope's c...

Science January 6, 2006

Cosmological Magnetic Field: a fossil of density perturbations in the early universe

The origin of large scale magnetic fields found in galaxies and clusters of galaxies is still a mystery. Researchers from National Astronom...

Science December 22, 2005

Young Galaxies Grow Up Together in a Nest of Dark Matter

Astronomers have found clear indications that clumps of dark matter are the nursing grounds for new born galaxies about twelve billion ligh...

Science October 13, 2005

A Galactic Space Halo -- NGC2403

Subaru Telescope, using Suprime-Cam, took the clearest most complete image to date of the spiral galaxy NGC 2403. At a distance of 10 milli...

Science September 16, 2005

Asteroids Created the Oldest Craters on the Moon

Four billion years ago, the solar system went through an epoch of collisions that left craters throughout the inner solar system, including...

Science September 16, 2005

Mauna Kea's Giant Eyes Reunite Comet Families

Coordinated observations of the collision of NASA's Deep Impact mission with comet 9P/Tempel 1 by the Subaru, Gemini and Keck telescopes on...

Science September 13, 2005

Hawaii Telescopes Catch Most Distant Explosion

Subaru succeeded in obtaining a precise distance to the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen. Such cosmic explosions, called gamma-ray bu...