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...remains an unsolved problem for astronomers. The scientists used the Subaru telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, which is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. The device has a diameter of 27 feet (8.2...

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...wavelengths. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Japan's Subaru Telescope, atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, first spotted the galaxy in visible-light images, where it appeared as an inconspicuous smudge due to its great distance. It wasn't until...

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...from Brahe's blast is the oldest ever seen in the Milky Way. Krause and his colleagues spotted the echo using the massive 8.2-metre Subaru Telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. They were able to match the faint afterglow to the original...

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goran72 writes "A new image, taken with an infrared camera on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, has revealed a cosmic fireworks display, in the form of tens of thousands of previously unseen comet-shaped knots inside the Helix Nebula.

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Academia Sinica joins Japan telescope project TECHNOLOGY: The Academia Sinica's Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics will help to develop a new camera for Japan's Subaru Telescope in Hawaii Academia Sinica, the nation's top academic and...

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...their slow and steady growth through mergers. Researchers using the Subaru telescope in Hawaii have identified five distant galaxy clusters that formed five billion years after the Big Bang. They calculated the mass of the biggest galaxy in...

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...example.' The discovery, which is to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, came to light after researchers at the Carnegie Institution in California used the Subaru telescope in Hawaii to search for smaller galaxies. Using space...

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...and to understand dark energy and the life cycles of galaxies IMAGE: The Subaru Telescope, one of the largest in the world, sits atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in Hawaii. The isolated peak is one of the best on Earth for... Scientists...

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...John Moores University in England. He and his colleagues used the infrared Subaru telescope atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea to observe the galaxies, and the team describes the findings in the April 2 Nature. "No doubt the theorists will want to...

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