Subaru is a 26.9-foot (8.2 meters) instrument that bears the Japanese name for the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades. Once an active volcano, Mauna Kea hasn't erupted in about 4,5000 years.

The Subaru Telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), sits at an elevation of 13,579 feet (4,139 m), on the highest peak in Hawaii.

Subaru Telescope’s HDS spectra of CoRoT Sol 1 show that its overall chemical composition is similar to that of the Sun, but its detailed abundance pattern shows some differences, like most ...

The orbit of Ammonite (red line) and the orbits of the other three sednoids (white lines). Ammonite was discovered close to its perihelion, at a distance of 71 astronomical units (71 times the average ...

Afterglow of the dark GRB and its host galaxy taken with the Subaru Telescope’s Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS). Image (a) was taken 9 hours after the burst.

Kyoto3DII at the Nasmyth focus of the Subaru Telescope. The size of the instrument, including the frame, is 2 m high X 2 m wide X 1 m deep. The black box on the left side of the image is part of ...

The Subaru telescope. Photo: Sasquatch / Wikimedia Commons The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye.

Subaru Telescope mentors four students in Akamai program Thursday, October 10, 2023 12:05 am The 2023 Akamai interns pose and their mentors from Subaru Telescope. Share this story ...

These Subaru Telescope observations will not only become very important data for Hayabusa2’s extended mission, they will also give a boost to future missions.

Kumiko Usuda-Sato and Tyler Ogawa, Jr. Instrument Technician, who graduated from the University of Hawai`i at Hilo, ...

A team of astronomers using the Subaru Telescope's Suprime-Cam to perform the Subaru Ultra-Deep Survey for Lyman-alpha Emitters have looked back more than 13 billion years to find 7 early galaxies ...

Scientists using the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea in Hilo discovered a new celestial object that could provide insight into ...