On the night of Monday, March 2, 2026, a total lunar eclipse unfolded over the Pacific region. Unlike a solar eclipse, which ...

This instrument can observe approximately 2,400 celestial objects at the same time across a wide field of view. It breaks ...

The "Subaru 2" project, which aims to significantly enhance the capabilities of the Subaru Telescope and open new frontiers in astronomical research, officially started in 2022. The "Subaru 3 Workshop ...

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 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 research team led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University has discovered an extraordinary quasar in the early Universe that hosts one of the fastest-growing ...

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 ...

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 ...

太陽系外縁部を進むニュー・ホライズンズ探査機にすばる望遠鏡の広く深い撮像観測が貢献しています。すばる望遠鏡の超広視野カメラで撮られたカイパーベルト天体の探査画像に独自の ...

COIAS (Come On! Impacting ASteroids) is a web-based application that lets anyone search for Small Solar System Bodies (SSSBs) using images taken by the Subaru Telescope. Since its launch in July 2023, ...

The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and The Asahi Shimbun Company installed an ultra-high sensitivity camera on the Summit Facility of the Subaru Telescope to livestream the night ...