Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special "compound eye," culminating several years of ...

Operating a rolling program for calibration of test optics where possible to national standards and production approval to ISO 9001-2015 ensures that the quality of telescope spectrograph optics from ...

Notably, the University of Tokyo Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe has taken the lead in ...

On November 8, astronomers at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in the mountains above San Diego directed a brand-new ...

The instrument, called the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), features approximately 2,400 prisms scattered across the extremely wide field of view available at the Subaru Telescope’s primary focus, ...

This instrument, the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS), will be ready ... models about the formation of the universe. The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has also played a central ...

Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration towards their star, these planets were thought to accrete or eject any other planets present.

Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration towards their star, ...