Research carried out with the Subaru Telescope has led to a prestigious honor for Rhythm Shimakawa, Associate Professor at ...
若手科学者賞は、独創的な発想や新しい研究分野の開拓によって優れた成果をあげた若手研究者に贈られるものです。嶋川さんは、「宇宙最盛期の原始銀河団で形成される赤色銀河の観測的 ...
The Subaru Telescope observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on January 7, 2026 (UT), after it made its closest approach to the Sun. By observing colors in the coma around the comet, astronomers ...
図2:彗星コマ中での酸素原子の発光メカニズム。彗星コマ中の水(H 2 O)や二酸化炭素(CO 2)は太陽の紫外線によって分解され、酸素原子がつくられます。この酸素原子は、オーロラと同じ仕組みで緑や赤の光を放ちます。水から作られた酸素原子は赤い光を出しやすく、二酸化炭素から作ら ...
Observations conducted with the Subaru Telescope and its first-generation wide-field camera, Suprime-Cam, have revealed new insights into the relationship between the color and size of Jupiter Trojan ...
An international team led by a researcher at the Chiba Institute of Technology has discovered an extremely rare phenomenon: a galaxy about 10 billion light-years away whose brightness dropped to ...
The "Kōsho Hajime" ceremony is an annual event held at the Imperial Palace in Japan, where His Majesty the Emperor listens to lectures on academic topics. This tradition dates back to 1869, when ...
東北大学と国立天文台が協力して開発を進める次世代の補償光学「ULTIMATE-START(アルティメット・スタート)」の試験観測が、2025年12月に行われました。複数のレーザーガイド星を用いる ...
Test observations using the next-generation adaptive optics system ULTIMATE-START, developed through collaboration between Tohoku University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), ...
How did the construction of the Subaru Telescope transform Japanese astronomy? A new study provides a quantitative answer by analyzing scientific publications and their citation impact during the ...
The team behind CIAX—the Cassegrain Instrument Auto eXchanger for the Subaru Telescope—has received the FY 2025 Director General's Prize of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) for ...
Worlds like Tatooine—the iconic twin-sun planet from Star Wars—are no longer confined to science fiction; they have entered the realm of modern astrophysics. These distant worlds, orbiting stars ...