National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Superflare with massive, high-velocity prominence eruption.

This discovery confirms the existence of galaxies in the very early Universe found by the JWST.

This is an important clue for understanding how so called “ultra-diffuse” galaxies are formed.

A powerful new tool for analyzing big data from current and planned astronomy surveys.

This has important implications for models of how comets originally formed in the solar system.

Atoms and ions can absorb and emit certain colors of light. By analyzing the detailed colors of inaccessible objects, like high-temperature plasmas in a...

A team at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has discovered a new class of object that has long been thought to exist in...

Supernovae are imperative events in the advancement of stars and galaxies, however, the subtle elements of how the explosions happen are as yet obscure....