The discovery of two remarkable substellar companions orbiting distant stars has been announced by an international team of ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...