In Fiscal Year 2024, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Subaru Telescope with a variety of events held across Japan and in Hilo, Hawai`i, where our base facility ...

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Hubble Classification, also known as the Hubble Sequence, is a widely recognized method for systematically categorizing galaxy morphology. Galaxies are classified into elliptical, lenticular, and ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early Universe, less than one billion years after the Big Bang — a type of object that had previously escaped detection. An ...

Subaru AO188 is an 188-element curvature sensor adaptive optics system that is operated in both natural guide star (NGS) and laser guide star (LGS) modes. AO188 module is mounted on the Nasmyth ...

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Detail ： GJ 504 b is an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star GJ 504. It is estimated to be three to six times more massive than Jupiter, making it the least massive planet ever directly imaged. This ...

The barred spiral galaxy NGC 521 is located in the Cetus constellation. As a face-on galaxy, it shows a clear view of the bulge, dust ring, barred structure, and extended spiral arms. In the spiral ...

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 ...