Subaru Telescope
The Early Universe Was All About Galactic Hook Ups
According to new research by an international team of scientists, early galaxies were characterized by mergers (aka. "hookups")
Subaru Telescope Spots Galaxies From The Early Universe
It's an amazing thing, staring into deep space with the help of a high-powered telescope. In addition to being able…
Comet ISON Hosted A Rare Kind Of Nitrogen, Hinting At Reservoirs In Young Solar System
Comet ISON -- that bright comet last year that broke up around Thanksgiving weekend -- included two forms of nitrogen…
Greedy Galaxies Gobbled Gas, Stalling Star Formation Billions Of Years Ago
Like millionaires that burn through their cash too quickly, astronomers have found one factor behind why compact elliptical galaxies stopped…
What Fuels The Engine Of A Supermassive Black Hole?
If you could get a good look at the environment around a supermassive black hole -- which is a black…
Subaru Telescope Captures the Fine Details of Comet Lovejoy’s Tail
Comet ISON may be no more than just a cloud of icy debris these days but there's another comet that's…
Subaru Telescope Reveals Orderly Massive Galaxy Evolution
Nobody likes a sloppy COSMOS (Cosmological Evolution Survey) and astronomers utilizing the Fiber-Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope…
New 3-D Map Shows Large Scale Structures in the Universe 9 Billion Years Ago
I remember seeing the Hubble 3-D IMAX movie in 2010 and literally gasping when the view pulled back from zooming…
Where Is Dark Matter Most Dense? Subaru Telescope Gets Some Hints
Put another checkmark beside the "cold dark matter" theory. New observations by Japan's Subaru Telescope are helping astronomers get a…
Astronomers Directly Image Distant Exoplanet
False color, near infrared image of the Kappa Andromedae system, by the Subaru Telescope. Almost all of the light of…