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

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 ...

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 ...

4. Abstract (except for Service Program) Provide a clear and concise description of your proposed observations and their scientific importance in approximately 200 words. The abstract of all the ...

The following tables list filters available for open use observation of the HSC, together with their sensitivities. The transmission curves measured at the center of filters are available as plots and ...

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.

NGC 748 is a spiral galaxy located in the direction of Cetus, displaying beautiful and well-defined spiral arms. From Earth, we observe its stellar disk at an angle, revealing a color gradient from ...

Figure 1: Dark matter in the Perseus Cluster. The distribution of dark matter (in blue) is overlayed on an image taken by Hyper Sprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. The newly detected subcluster ...

すばる望遠鏡の 25 周年を記念する画像集がこの3月に株式会社クレヴィスから発売されます。 -------------------- 「すばる望遠鏡 宇宙の神秘を探る」 （国立天文台ハワイ観測所 編著） 定価：定価：3,630 円（本体 3,300 円） ISBN978-4-911003-32-9 仕様：B5 判、208 頁、上製本 発売日：2025年3月28日 ...

PFS will be one of the flagship instruments of the "Subaru Telescope 2.0" era. Taking advantage of the Subaru Telescope’s ultrawide field of view, approximately 1.3 degrees in diameter at the prime ...

NGC 474 is more than twice the size of the Milky Way Galaxy, which has a 100,000 light-year diameter stellar disk. Although it is classified as an elliptical galaxy which is typically smooth and ...

NGC 4496 in the constellation Virgo consists of two spiral galaxies, NGC 4496A (upper large galaxy) and NGC4496B (lower galaxy). They are in the same line of sight from Earth but located at quite ...