Subaru Telescope`s image captures intricacies of comet Lovejoy`s tail

Last Updated: Friday, December 6, 2013, 11:44

Astronomers, using Suprime-Cam, Subaru Telescope`s wide-field, prime-focus camera, have managed to capture an image of the intricate flow of Comet Lovejoy`s (C/2013 R1) ion tail.

Astronomers establish high-inclination asteroids` strength

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 15:32

Astronomers used the Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) that is mounted on the Subaru Telescope to observe faint asteroids that have highly inclined orbits.

Distribution of dark matter in 50 galaxy clusters measured

Last Updated: Thursday, June 13, 2013, 19:14

A team of astronomers from Taiwan, England, and Japan have used the Subaru Telescope to measure the distribution of dark matter in fifty galaxy clusters.

ALMA telescope finds 15 extremely dark galaxies unidentified until now

Last Updated: Saturday, June 1, 2013, 11:11

With the help of ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array), scientists have observed the "Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey Field" in the direction of the constellation Cetus, and succeeded in identifying 15 dark galaxies.

`Super-Jupiter` discovered around massive star

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 16:39

Using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have discovered a “super-Jupiter” around the bright star Kappa Andromedae.

Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 13:29

Japanese astronomers said today 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.