Equipped with a groundbreaking new instrument, the Subaru Telescope is opening a new window into the Universe, allowing ...

Thanks to the long-term efforts of the Subaru community and international collaborations, the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) has begun science operations this spring, and a large amount of exciting ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of object that lies between a star and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

革新的な新装置の搭載によって、すばる望遠鏡がこれまでにない鮮明さで宇宙を観測できるようになります。国際研究チームは「フォトニック・ランタン」と呼ばれるデバイスを利用して ...

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 ...

In the summer of 2022, the Subaru Telescope suspended observations for about two months for telescope maintenance and the aluminum recoating of the primary mirror. This was the 9th coating for the ...