Press Release

2009

Jul. 2: A Fireworks Display in the Helix Nebula

Jun. 9: Discovery of New Tidal Debris of Colliding Galaxies

May 21: Astronomers successfully obtained images of an extra-solar planet

Apr. 22: Mysterious Space Blob Discovered at Cosmic Dawn

Apr. 14: Creating Diamonds in Space

Apr. 3: Massive Galaxies Born Earlier than Expected

Mar. 6: Subaru Reveals History of Star Formation in M33

Feb. 24: Strong UV Radiation Detected in the Most Distant Galaxies

Feb. 17: Water ice in the young planetary system - future ocean of the planets?

Jan. 29: Subaru Head Count of Low-mass Stars in W3 Main

2008

Dec. 3: SUPERNOVA TIME TRAVEL AT SUBARU TELESCOPE: Super Explosion in 16th Century Caught by Subaru in 21st Century

Nov. 20: Suprime-Cam upgraded with ultra-sensitive CCDs

Oct. 30: Subaru Tackles Galaxy Evolution in Distant Universe

Oct. 6: Galaxy Ramming Through Space Creates Fireballs

Jul. 10: Starburst Galaxy Having Baby Boom

May 29: Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A: Decoding Light to Uncover the Mystery of its Birth

May 7: Saturn’s Atmosphere Does the Wave

Apr. 7: Small Distant Galaxies Confirm Galaxy Formation Theories

Apr. 7: Supernova Study Reveals Hidden Wonders and New Understandings

Feb. 20: Dozens of Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies Discovered in Distant Universe

Feb. 8: A Lightweight Disk Around a Lightweight Star May Harbor Earth-like Planet

Jan. 31: Supernovae are Not Spherical (or round) - Subaru Dissects the Interior of Exploding Stars

2007 : Scientific Results Summary

Dec. 18: Subaru Reveals "Frameworks" of Galaxies at 11 Billion Years Ago

Dec. 14: Subaru Collaborates NASA's Deep Impact Mission

Nov. 28: Leo II: An Old Dwarf Galaxy with Juvenescent Heart

Sep. 25: Subaru Telescope Uncovers a Misaligned Jet in a Binary Star System

Sep. 10: Subaru Astronomers Measure Meteoroid Tunnels in Earth’s Atmosphere

Aug. 23: Subaru Measures the Spin-Orbit Alignment in a Faint Transiting Extrasolar Planetary System

Jun. 25: First Detection of Thorium in an Extragalactic Star

May 19: The Thickness and Formation Age of Surface Layer on Comet 9P/Tempel 1

Apr. 24: More Fragments Discovered in Comet Schwassman-Wachmann 3 Nucleus

Mar. 12: Supernova Remnant in Dark Space: Subaru Prime Focus Camera Captures the Transfiguration of Crab Nebula

Mar. 5: Unusual Streak of Ionized Gas Hints at Galaxy's Past

Feb. 13: Double sun sunset no longer science fiction

Jan. 7: DARK MATTER MAP REVEALS COSMIC WEB

2006 : Scientific Results Summary

Nov. 20: Subaru Telescope Improves its Eyesight by a Factor of Ten

Oct. 23: Star Ends Infancy Abruptly

Sep. 13: Cosmic Archeology Uncovers the Universe’s Dark Ages

Aug. 29: Japanese Researcher Finds Massive Black Hole 12.7 Billion Light-years Away

Jul. 26: GIANT GAS CLOUDS ILLUMINATE UNIVERSE’S LARGEST STRUCTURE

Jul. 13: Subaru Discovers 9 new Satellites of Saturn

Jun. 27: Diversity the Norm in Protoplanetary Disks: Astronomers Find Donuts, Spirals and Now Banana Splits

May 31: The Subaru Makali‘i School: High School Students Observe with the Subaru Telescope

May 25: Universe Re-Ionized 900 Million Years After Birth

May 11: Subaru Captures Crumbling Comet SW3

Apr. 20: Synergy of Technologies Reveal Origin of Dust Around Nearby Star

Apr. 10: Computer Simulations Link Galaxies Past and Present

Feb. 15: Supermassive Black Holes Hide in Dust Cocoons

2005 : Scientific Results Summary

Dec. 21: Young Galaxies Grow Up Together in a Nest of Dark Matter

Oct. 13: A Galactic Space Halo -- NGC2403

Sep. 15: Mauna Kea Giants Find Common Nursery for Comets

Sep. 15: Asteroids Created the Oldest Craters on the Moon

Sep. 12: HAWAII TELESCOPES CATCH MOST DISTANT EXPLOSION

Aug. 31: Circumstellar Disk Cradles Young Massive Star

Aug. 4: New Integral Field Spectrograph Reveals the Energetic Gas Outflow from the Supermassive Black Hole

Jul. 21: Subaru Obtains the Deepest Infrared Image of the Universe

Jul. 6: Solid State Laser for Subaru Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics

Jun. 30: A Massive-Core Hot Planet is Discovered

Jun. 3: Calculations Reveal Chemical Inheritance of Oldest Stars

May 26: Hypernova Reveals Hidden Identity As Gamma-Ray Burst

May 9: Twelve New Moons Discovered for Saturn

Apr. 20: Silhouette Reveals Hidden Shape of Young Star's Envelope

Apr. 13: Nucleosynthesis signatures of the first stars

Apr. 1: Rapid Flares in Normal Looking Galaxies Hint at the Ubiquity of Supermassive Black Holes

Mar. 1: A Glimpse at the Hidden Process of Star Formation

Feb. 24: Young Star's Companion Has Only Forty Times the Mass of Jupiter

Feb. 16: Galaxy Clusters Formed Early

Jan. 3: Quaoar Reveals a Surprisingly Young Face

2004 : Scientific Results Summary

Dec. 23: Jupiter's Moon Had A Far-Flung Past

Dec. 15: The Soot Enshrouded End of a Sun-like Star

Nov. 18: Subaru Witnesses Galactic Cannibalism in Action

Oct. 21: Planetesimal belts are discovered around beta Pictoris

Aug. 5: Dwarf Irregular Galaxies: Not So Pristine After All

Jun. 29: Winds Measured on Saturn"s Moon Titan to Help Robot Lander

Jun. 1: Welcome to A Menagerie of A Million Galaxies

Apr. 18: Spiral Dance in a Planetary Nursery

Apr. 4: Discovery of Water Icy Grains in Comet LINEAR Approaching Earth

Feb. 23: A Treasure Chest of Stars -- Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Sextans A

2003 : Scientific Results Summary

Dec. 22: A Chain Cluster: Witnessing the Formation of a Rich Galaxy Cluster 7 Billion Years Ago

Dec. 17: Discovery of Widest-separation Quasar Gravitational Lens

Nov. 25: Subaru Finds Galaxy Seed in the Early Universe

Oct. 1: Opening Up Mid-infrared Astronomy with COMICS

Oct. 1: COMICS Detects Crystalline Silicates Around a Young Sun-like Star.

Set. 16: Subaru Observes Mars with IRCS and HDTV camera.

Jun. 13 : Gamma-Ray Bursts = Hypernovae ?!

May 29 : Subaru Discovers Many Distant Supernovae

Apr. 8 : The Universe Had Large Scale Structure at a Very Early Age

Apr. 8 : Jupiter and Saturn Have More Moons

Mar. 19 : Subaru Detects Most Distant Galaxy Yet

Jan. 16 : Isolated Star-Forming Cloud Discovered in Intracluster Space (Joint release with ESO)

2002 : Scientific Results Summary

Sept. 29 : Aging Star Has 'Bullets' and 'Horns'

Aug. 8 : Subaru Discovers an Exploding Galaxy at the Edge of the Universe

May 7 : Galaxy's Light Pushes Back Dark Ages of the Universe

Apr. 15 : Discovery of Huge Gas Cloud Expanding around Galaxy

Feb. 21 : A Near-Infrared View of Uranus, Its Ring system, and Two Satellites

Feb. 6 : Subaru observes Supernova SN 2002ap

Jan. 16 : First spectroscopic observations with Subaru's adaptive optics

2001 : Scientific Results Summary

Nov. 1 : Subaru Approaches Origin of Comets

Sep. 7 : A color image of the Andromeda Galaxy

Jul. 12 : Discovery of seven new distant supernovae

May 23 : Subaru discovers small objects in the outer Solar System

Apr. 30 : Light From All the Galaxies in the Universe Accounted For Using the 'Subaru Deep Field'

Feb. 13 : Subaru Stares into a Cradle of Stars

2000 : Scientific Results Summary

Dec. 2 : Adaptive Optics First Light!

Nov. 14 : Wide Field Color Image with Suprime-Cam

Oct. 9 : Observed Gamma-Ray Burst

Jul. 24 : Image of Comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4)

Jul. 6 : Superb Observations with OHS (CISCO)

Jun. 22 : 0.3 Arcsec Imaging with Suprime-Cam

May 4 : Subaru Catches a Burst from Space

Mar. 24 : Red Light flowing from Galaxy (M 82, NGC 3034)

1999 : Scientific Results Summary

Sep. 16 : Subaru Deep Field

Sep. 16 : Radio Galaxy B3 0731+438 at a Distance of 9.2 Billion Light Years

Sep. 16 : Subtle halos about Ring Nebula (M57, NGC 6720)

Aug. 24 : Two Jets from Protostar L1551-IRS5

Jul. 19 : The first detection of extraterrestrial solid ethane

Jun. 10 : Radio Galaxy 3C324 with Surrounding Clusters of Galaxies

Jun. 10 : 0.2 arcsec Stellar Image Profile

Jan. 28 : First Light