NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), one of ...

The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) participated in <a href=" 2026 in Hong Kong. Together with ...

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 ...

Before dawn on March 3, 2022 (Hawai`i Standard Time), Subaru Telescope achieved the first launch of a new laser guide star system, upgraded and used for the Subaru Telescope’s adaptive optics system.

A large protocluster of galaxies that existed 12.6 billion years ago, first discovered with the Subaru Telescope, has been examined in detail using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The study ...

国立天文台の若手研究者に密着したドキュメンタリー作品を制作いただきました。 （YouTube『未読』、企画制作：GRAIN.MOV） 本作品では、すばる望遠鏡を用いて研究を行う柿元拓実さんに密着 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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), ...

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) has partnered with Japanese media company Asahi Shimbun to provide a 24/7 livestream of Maunakea’s summit via the new CFHT-Asahi StarCam. The high-definition, ...