The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images taken with the world’s largest digital camera on June 23, 2025 (local ...

ベラ・C・ルービン天文台は、世界最大のデジタルカメラによる観測画像を 2025年6月23日（現地時）に初公開しました。今後、このカメラを用いた大規模撮像探査プロジェクト「LSST（Legacy Survey of Space and Time）」が本格的に始まります。LSST には、国立天文台の研究者を含む日本の研究者も多く ...

System Overview of Subaru AO188 AO188 module Subaru AO188 is an 188 element curvature sensor adaptive optics system that are operated in both natural guide star (NGS) and laser guide star (LGS) modes.

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 ...

Detail ： GJ 504 b is an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star GJ 504. It is estimated to be three to six times more massive than Jupiter, making it the least massive planet ever directly imaged. This ...

Figure 1: Dark matter in the Coma Cluster region. The distribution of dark matter calculated based on this research (dark green cloud) is overlayed on an image of the Coma Cluster and more distant ...

アメリカ・ハワイのマウナケアの山頂域にある「すばる望遠鏡」は、自然科学研究機構国立天文台ハワイ観測所が運用する口径 8.2 メートルの光学赤外線望遠鏡です。

IRCS Polarimetry Linear polarimetry with IRCS and AO188 is available in two settings (near-infrared [NIR] 0.95−2.5μm and thermal-infrared [TIR] 1.92−4.80μm), which are offered on a shared-risk basis.

Subaru Service Program 1. Definition Service Program is for observing proposals which require less than or equal to 4 hours including all the "open-dome" calibrations and overheads. All Service ...

A Giant Cluster of Supermassive Black Holes Supermassive black holes, known as quasars, shine like cosmic beacons due to the vast amounts of energy released as they actively consume matter from their ...

The Subaru Telescope's state-of-the-art exoplanet imaging system – the SCExAO adaptive optics module coupled with the CHARIS integral field spectrograph – has seen two full years of Open Use operation ...