In Fiscal Year 2024, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Subaru Telescope with a variety of events held across Japan and in Hilo, Hawai`i, where our base facility ...

Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope's ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a population of small bodies further out in the Kuiper Belt waiting to be discovered ...

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, ...

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special "compound eye" culminating several years of effort. This new eye is an instrument featuring approximately 2,400 prisms ...

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 ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a tightly packed cluster of supermassive black holes dating back 10.8 billion years―the most extreme concentration of such objects ever found in the ...

An international team of astronomers has solved one of the longstanding cosmic mysteries by uncovering direct evidence of a massive, long-lost object that collided with the Perseus cluster. Using high ...

Before dawn on March 3, 2022 (Hawai`i Standard Time), Subaru Telescope achieved the first launch of a new laser guide star system, upgraded and used for the Subaru Telescope’s adaptive optics system.

Families, friends, and community members are invited to gather for an evening of Japanese culture, music, dance, science, and stargazing at the Tanabata Block Party 2025, happening Saturday, August 30 ...

2024年度の1年間、すばる望遠鏡25周年を記念したイベントを日本全国各地とハワイ観測所山麓施設のあるハワイ島ヒロで実施しました。数々のイベントについて振り返ります。 ロゴの作成と ...

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 ...