On the night of Monday, March 2, 2026, a total lunar eclipse unfolded over the Pacific region. Unlike a solar eclipse, which is visible only from a narrow path, a lunar ...

ハワイ時間 2026年3月2日の深夜、太平洋地域などで皆既月食が観測されました。日食が地球上の限られた帯状の地域でしか見られないのに対し、月食は月が地平線上に出ている地球上の広い ...

This instrument can observe approximately 2,400 celestial objects at the same time across a wide field of view. It breaks down the light of each object into a rainbow extending well past the range of ...

How did the construction of the Subaru Telescope transform Japanese astronomy? A new study provides a quantitative answer by analyzing scientific publications and their citation impact during the ...

CLOSING DATE: March 12, 2026, or until filled. Job postings are removed from the RCUH Job Openings site once the recruitment process has ended. Regular, Full-Time, RCUH Non-Civil Service position with ...

The team behind CIAX—the Cassegrain Instrument Auto eXchanger for the Subaru Telescope—has received the FY 2025 Director General's Prize of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) for ...

Worlds like Tatooine—the iconic twin-sun planet from Star Wars—are no longer confined to science fiction; they have entered the realm of modern astrophysics. These distant worlds, orbiting stars ...

A special feature consisting of six research papers has been published in the journal of the Astronomical Society of Japan, presenting scientific results from meteor observations made with the "Subaru ...

約 120 億年前の初期宇宙で、想像を超える速さで成長する超巨大ブラックホール（クエーサー）が見つかりました。早稲田大学や東北大学の研究者を中心とする研究チームは、すばる望遠鏡 ...

On October 11, 2025, graduate students from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) carried out hands-on observations with the Subaru Telescope as part of a training program. With ...

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 ...