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Subaru telescope pioneers the use of adaptive optics for optical observations

A research team from the University of Tokyo/Kavli IPMU, Ehime University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has succeeded in conducting the first, full-scale scientific observationswith ...

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created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Subaru telescope discovers the most distant protocluster of galaxies

Using the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Jun Toshikawa (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan), Dr. Nobunari Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), and Dr. Kazuaki ...

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created May 05, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster

Japanese astronomers said Wednesday they had found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away from Earth, which they claim is the most distant cluster ever discovered.

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created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 34

Mapping galaxy formation in dual mode

A team of astronomers led by David Sobral (Leiden Observatory and Royal Observatory of Edinburgh) has explored the synergies between the Subaru Telescope and the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT) ...

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created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Subaru's sharp eye confirms signs of unseen planets in the dust ring of HR 4796 A

(PhysOrg.com) -- The SEEDS (Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru Telescope/HiCIAO) project, a five-year international collaboration launched in 2009 and led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ ...

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created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Spitzer and Hubble telescopes find rare galaxy at dawn of time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The blob-shaped galaxy, ...

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created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Subaru's 3-D view of Stephan's Quintet

Subaru Telescope has added another dimension of information about one of the most studied of all compact galaxy groups—Stephan's Quintet. Located within the borders of the constellation Pegasus, Stephan's ...

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created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Spiral arms hint at the presence of planets

A new image of the disk of gas and dust around a sun-like star has spiral-arm-like structures. These features may provide clues to the presence of embedded but as-yet-unseen planets.

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created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Researchers explain the formation of Scheila's unusual triple dust tails

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team of planetary scientists and astronomers, primarily from Seoul National University, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Institute of Space and Astronautical ...

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created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Astronomers find bounty of failed stars

A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has discovered over two dozen new free-floating brown dwarfs, including a lightweight youngster only about six times heftier than Jupiter, that reside in two ...

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created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Mauna Kea telescope back up after lightning strike

(AP) -- A Mauna Kea telescope that was knocked out by lightning more than two months ago is fully operational again after undergoing repairs, the telescope's director said Friday.

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created Aug 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Red-burning galaxies hold the key to galaxy evolution

A research team of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and the National Astronomical Society of Japan (NAOJ) has identified the location of red star-forming galaxies around a galaxy cluster situated four ...

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created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Subaru 8-meter telescope damaged by leaking coolant

A "serious hardware incident" has shut down the Subaru Telescope indefinitely. A leak allowed orange-colored coolant to spill over the primary mirror and into the main camera, as well as into other instruments ...

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created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Duo of big telescopes probes the depths of binary star formation

A team of researchers from four Japanese universities (Kobe, Saitama, Osaka, and Tokyo) has been able to delineate the intricate structure of the circumbinary disk that surrounds a young binary star system ...

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created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Subaru telescope discovers a Rosetta Stone cluster of galaxies

An international team of researchers led by Ichi Tanaka from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has discovered an aggregate of galaxies undergoing a burst of star formation that may hold ...

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created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast