Families, friends, and community members are invited to gather for an evening of Japanese culture, music, dance, science, and ...

The Subaru Telescope is located near the summit of Maunakea, on the Big Island of Hawai`i, one of the best locations for astronomical observations. Under the clear, starry sky, the Subaru Telescope ...

Current status of PFS (As of 2025/08/12) Status of instrument All hardware is now online Fiber throughput variation issue We found that the relative fiber throughput changed in a time-scale of a few ...

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 ...

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 started a new outreach camera project in collaboration with the Asahi-Shimbun, one of the most popular newspapers in Japan. This camera is used for live streaming of the night ...

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, ...

System Overview of Subaru AO188 AO188 module Subaru AO188 is an 188-element curvature sensor adaptive optics system that is operated in both natural guide star (NGS) and laser guide star (LGS) modes.

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 ...

The Hubble Classification, also known as the Hubble Sequence, is a widely recognized method for systematically categorizing galaxy morphology. Galaxies are classified into elliptical, lenticular, and ...

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.