The discovery of two remarkable substellar companions orbiting distant stars has been announced by an international team of astronomers using the Subaru Telescope’s ...

Subaru Telescope is an 8.2-meter optical-infrared telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawaiʻi, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), National Institutes of Natural ...

国立天文台やアストロバイオロジーセンターの研究者を含む国際研究チームは、すばる望遠鏡による高精細な観測と、宇宙望遠鏡のデータを組み合わせ、これまで詳しく調べられてこなかった恒星の周囲に新たに２つの低質量天体を発見しました。巨大ガス惑星や褐色矮星を直接撮像し、その性質を明らかにすることを目指す探査計画「OASIS（オアシス）」の初成果です。

The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), in collaboration with The Pokémon Company, has launched the "Pokémon ...

The Subaru Telescope has started a new outreach camera project in collaboration with the Asahi-Shimbun, one of the most popular newspapers in Japan. This camera is used for live streaming of the night ...

The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the outer edge of the Solar System that includes Sedna. The new object, ...

The Subaru Telescope's wide and deep imaging observations are contributing information to the New Horizons spacecraft as it moves through the outer Solar System. By applying a unique analysis method ...

Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope's ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a population of small bodies further out in the Kuiper Belt waiting to be discovered ...

FMOS System Overview FMOS consists of several components which are distributed across the telescope facility as shown in Fig. 1: The fiber positioner system "Echidna" accomodated in the Prime Focus ...

展示は、第1章「天文台から宇宙へ」、第2章「身近な宇宙にせまる」、第3章「見えない宇宙を見る」、第3章と第4章をつなぐ「メテノトンネル」、第4章「生命の星地球」、第5章 ...

The Akamai Internship Program, Hawai`i's premier STEM workforce development initiative, is now accepting applications for its 2026 summer cohort. The program offers Hawai`i college students the ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a tightly packed cluster of supermassive black holes dating back 10.8 billion years―the most extreme concentration of such objects ever found in the ...