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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special "compound eye" culminating several years of effort. This new eye is an instrument featuring approximately 2,400 prisms ...

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 ...

The public tour program at the Subaru Telescope's summit facility has been suspended, but now we officially end the program due to various circumstances surrounding the observatory. The Subaru ...

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 ...

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An international team of astronomers has solved one of the longstanding cosmic mysteries by uncovering direct evidence of a massive, long-lost object that collided with the Perseus cluster. Using high ...

The MBQ1 (Medium Band Quadrant) filter is newly opened for open-use observations in Semester S26A. If you wish to use this filter during the period of S26A through S27A, you must obtain an approval in ...

The new integral field spectroscopy mode of the Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph (FOCAS) on the Subaru Telescope started open-use observations in June 2019. Integral field spectroscopy is an ...