The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is 11,000 light-years away in ...

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Astrophysicists have achieved a major breakthrough by capturing images of exocomet belts around 74 nearby stars. Using the ...

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

There are three types of telescopes: reflectors, refractors, and catadioptric or compound telescopes. They each have a different kind of lens set-up, which means they provide different results.

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, ...