News tagged with subaru telescope

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

Back to the roots of the solar system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Planets form in disks of dust and gas that surround young stars. A look at the birth places means a journey into the past of the earth and its siblings. Now, astronomers have been able to ...

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created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Astronomers identify most distant galaxy cluster

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster ...

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created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Subaru telescope photographed 103P/Hartley

Scientists used Suprime-Cam at Subaru Telescope to catch the comet 103P/Hartley after long shut down of the telescope.

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created Oct 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Subaru Telescope Detects Clues for Understanding the Origin of Mysterious Dark Gamma-Ray Bursts

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by astronomers from Kyoto University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan used the Subaru Telescope to observe a dark gamma-ray ...

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created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1